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thwartingverbpresent participle of thwart to prevent from achieving a goala coalition of grassroots organizations thwarted the company's efforts to get approval for a new power plant baffling, balking, beating, checkmating, discomfiting, foiling, frustrating barring, blocking, clogging, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, holding back, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up)arresting, checking, halting, setting back, short-circuiting, stalling, stoppingaverting, forestalling, obviating, precluding, preventingnegating, neutralizing, nullifyingcounteracting, offsettingconquering, defeating, overcoming advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nurturing, promoting abetting, aiding, assistingeasing, facilitating, smoothing |