"thwarten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English thwertenen, equivalent to thwart + -en.",
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      "form": "thwartens",
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      "form": "thwartening",
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    {
      "form": "thwartened",
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      "form": "thwartened",
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          "ref": "1967, International Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Study of Fiscal Policy and Related Problems",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1981, T. D. Guyenne, G. Lévy, Plasma astrophysics",
          "text": "Small scale magnetic turbulence may quench the instability; the galactic differential rotation also tends to thwarten the growth of the longest modes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture",
          "text": "[…] (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.",
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        "To be positioned contrary to; be set against; oppose; hinder"
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          "contrary",
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          "against",
          "against"
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          "oppose",
          "oppose"
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          "hinder",
          "hinder"
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To be positioned contrary to; be set against; oppose; hinder"
      ],
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  "word": "thwarten"
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    {
      "form": "thwartened",
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      "form": "thwartened",
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