thwarten

present singular third person thwartens · participle present thwartening · participle past thwartened · past thwartened

1. ambitransitiveTo be positioned contrary to; be set against; oppose; hinder

   Small scale magnetic turbulence may quench the instability; the galactic differential rotation also tends to thwarten the growth of the longest modes.

   1981, T. D. Guyenne, G. Lévy, Plasma astrophysics

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   It is e.g. frivolous — and in the longer run thwartens the wishes of the tax stabilizers — if accidental declines in expenditures are without much justification used for new (and more or less permanent) tasks.

   1967, International Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Study of Fiscal Policy and Related Problems

   […] (2) that the expansion of agricultural production for export purposes did not thwarten food production, and (3) that rural poverty had been reduced and the quality of life had been improved.

   1988, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture