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athwart
[ uh-thwawrt ]
adverb
- from side to side; crosswise.
- Nautical.
- at right angles to the fore-and-aft line; across.
- broadside to the wind because of equal and opposite pressures of wind and tide:
a ship riding athwart.
- perversely; awry; wrongly.
preposition
- from side to side of; across.
- Nautical. across the direction or course of.
- in opposition to; contrary to.
athwart
/ əˈθwɔːt /
adverb
- transversely; from one side to another
preposition
- across the path or line of (esp a ship)
- in opposition to; against
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of athwart1
Example Sentences
The New York governor was the foremost Democrat to stand athwart the Reagan Revolution.
The new corporate social responsibility, redefined for libertarians, must stand athwart crony corporatism yelling "stop."
Conservatives, to invoke William Buckley, have stood athwart this history yelling “stop!”
How Robert Lipsyte, author of the new memoir An Accidental Sportswriter, stood athwart the sports page yelling, "Stop!"
The glowing heavens, luminous athwart the clouds of fine, suspended sand, laid this ominous hint of dream upon the entire day.
Silently the turnkey passes the cell, like a flitting mystery casting its shadow athwart a troubled soul.
A hemlock had fallen athwart it, and they sat down where they could look out upon a majestic panorama of towering rock and snow.
A few pines were sprinkled about the slopes of the gully, and one or two of them which had fallen lay athwart the creek.
A trail of filmy vapor crawled out athwart the lower pines and covered them as it rolled rapidly upward.
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