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THWARTS
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Classic
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Big
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Super Big
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THWARTS is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.
THWARTS root THWART-s
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adjective
- Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
- datedfigurativelyOf people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
- datedfigurativelyOf situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
adverb
- obsoleteAcross the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
preposition
- archaicpoeticAcross, athwart.
verb
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transitiveTo cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
- Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.
- The police thwarted the would-be assassin.
- obsoletetransitiveTo place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
- alsofigurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
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ambitransitiveobsoleteTo move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
- An arrow thwarts the air.
noun
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A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
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A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
- rareAn act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.