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thwarted   (TTS Sound)

The verb thwart has 1 sense

• thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk -- (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent")

The adj thwarted has 1 sense

• defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted -- (disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted")