VERB
使受挫;阻礙;阻撓
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...
會計事務所故意毀壞文件，阻撓政府調查工作。
Her ambition to become an artist was thwarted by failing eyesight.
她想成為藝術家的夢想由于視力衰減而破滅了。