Thwart Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Thwart crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on August 27 2022 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Thwart has a total of 4 letters.

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Definition

• To tread under foot; to trample.
• To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
• To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
• To defile; to soil.
• Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
• The track or trail of an animal.
• A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
• A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
• Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
• A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
• The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.

Check the table below for more likely or similar clues and answers related to Thwart crossword clue.

Rank Answer Clue Publisher
99% FOIL Thwart Wall Street Journal
20% DERAILS Thwarts, as a course of action Wall Street Journal
20% BACKTOSQUAREONE Where thwarted people, or six of this puzzle's answers, go Wall Street Journal
20% Thwarted prima donna’s expression Wall Street Journal
20% FOILONESPLANS Thwart somebody Wall Street Journal


Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:

  • Wall Street Journal Crossword, August 27 2022
  • Wall Street Journal Crossword, December 18 2020
  • Wall Street Journal Crossword, September 30 2017

The answer to Thwart crossword clue is FOIL

There are a total of 4 letters in Thwart crossword clue

The Thwart crossword clue was last seen on August 27 2022 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle


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