verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foil/thwart an attempt formal (= make it fail )
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Troops loyal to the general foiled the assassination attempt.
frustrate/thwart sb’s ambitions formal (= prevent someone from achieving them )
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The weather threatened to frustrate their ambitions.
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Her lifelong ambitions had been thwarted again and again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.
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A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt .
effort
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It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.
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Congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to thwart these efforts .
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But remoteness from the nearest exchange thwarted its efforts .
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Barred: Burglars who broke into the Spennymoor Leisure Centre were thwarted in their efforts to break into the bar.
plan
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Providing the military or the wild west sea don't thwart your plans , I doubt very much these climbs will disappoint.
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Mauss bought the passkey back, thwarting the anarchists' plans .
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The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.
■ VERB
try
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Just as urgently, the Putin government is trying to thwart him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been thwarted by customs officials.
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Efforts to clean up the oil spill have been thwarted by storms.
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Harry knew now that nothing could thwart his plans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from anything else, by both thwarting and manipulating nationalism, it prevented it from learning its limits.
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Congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to thwart these efforts.
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During Yeltsin's campaign for the presidency Gorbachev had at times quite blatantly attempted to thwart him.
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However, the council of ministers, divided on every other issue, combined to thwart her.
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It would have to reach 448. 95 or less to thwart the Lockheed Martin-Loral combination.
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Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy.
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People whose appetite for encryption may be thwarted righteously, effectively, and harshly.
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This revolution, how-ever, was thwarted almost at once.