Definition of "thwarting" []

• Present participle of thwart. (verb)
• An instance of blocking or obstructing. (noun)

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• "However, insofar as we can listen to the voices of the people through Bruce's reporting, this conflict between state and popular power is what they identify as thwarting them!"
• ""How you can say we are thwarting is beyond me," Kohnke said."
• "Historians generally talk about how extremely conservative and backward the Court was, in thwarting the "progressive" New Deal."