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• v  hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
• s  disappointingly unsuccessful
  disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
  his best efforts were thwarted

• It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin.
• Why else would their work have been thwarted? This disturbing story is told in a 13-page, single-spaced letter written to FBI Director Robert Mueller by Colleen Rowley.
• His fighters, that source says, overran Afghan outposts and even planted bombs in the town, but French commandos and Afghan militiamen thwarted the offensive.

• thwart
• queer
• spoil
• scotch
• foil
• cross
• frustrate
• baffle
• bilk
• defeated
• disappointed
• discomfited
• foiled
• frustrated

News & Articles

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• Venezuela claims assassination plot
  Venezuela has thwarted a plan by two paramilitary groups to kill President Nicolas Maduro, state-run VTV reported Monday.
  June 11, 2013 - CNN
• Venezuela foils plan to assassinate president
  Venezuela has thwarted a plan by paramilitary groups to kill President Nicolas Maduro, state-run VTV reported Monday. Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said the groups, made up of nine Colombian citizens. were arrested Sunday in the country's northwest before they were able to enter the capital, Caracas. Intelligence officials are tracking a third group, he said.
  June 11, 2013 - Local 10 Miami
• Feinstein: NSA programs thwarted plots in New York, Mumbai
  Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feisntein (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the Obama Administration's recently revealed surveillance programs have thwarted two major terrorist plots.
  June 9, 2013 - Washington Post