VERB
使受挫;阻碍;阻挠
If you thwart someone or thwart their plans, you prevent them from doing or getting what they want.
例句
The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators...
会计事务所故意毁坏文件,阻挠政府调查工作。
Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
她想成为艺术家的梦想由于视力衰减而破灭了。