Word Meanings - INTERVENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To thwart; to obstruct. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to INTERVENT)

• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• THWARTNESS
  The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.
• THWARTLY
  Transversely; obliquely.
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• THWARTER
  A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.
• THWARTINGLY
  In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.
• OBSTRUCTIONISM
  The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.
• THWART
  transverse, across; akin to AS. perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, 1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• ATHWART
  Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; --
• OVERTHWARTNESS
  The state of being overthwart; perverseness. Lord Herbert.
• OVERTHWART
  1. Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden. 2. Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Clarendon.
• DEOBSTRUCT
  To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.