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# thwarted

«thwarted» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stop them from getting what they want or from carrying…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (thwart, thwarts, thwarted, thwarting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To thwart someone is to stop them from getting what they want or from carrying out their plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/#m1)

2) (formal) Thwarted describes a wish or plan that has been stopped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a king, villain or hero is stopped from getting his way, so the anger and trouble that follow begin

### examples

- The King was terribly angry at being thwarted like this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/#x1)
- Kokai was so angry at being thwarted that he raised a revolt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/#x2)
- Her thwarted desire turned into hate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thwarted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thwarted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.