thwart
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Thwart them one way and they will find another.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
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From Time • Nov. 15, 2011
He forbade them to touch them—“I have told you my will! Thwart it at your peril, for I am guided by the ancestral spirits.”
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Thwart, thwawrt, adj. cross: being crosswise.—v.t. to cross: to oppose; to defeat.—n. the bench for rowers placed athwart the boat.—advs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Thwart them in their maraudings and they will fling you aside, as the barons have pulled down every king that dared oppose them.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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