spoil

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to prevent something from happening
preventVaccination will prevent the spread of the disease.
avoidLabel the boxes to avoid confusion.
stopThis should stop any further trouble.
avertWe had to act quickly to avert disaster.
prohibitBehavioural problems in the classroom prohibit learning.
checkChildren are being vaccinated in an attempt to check the spread of the disease.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preventing and impeding
anti-drug
anti-jamming
avoid
avoidable
avoidably
bottleneck
derail
fireproof
guard against something
hamper
hang
have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom
head off
preclusive
prejudice
prevent
preventable
preventative
scuttle
smother

Examples of thwarted

thwarted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Should other dependent reasons enter the picture, then it is not at all clear that the (normal) goal of arbitration would be thwarted.
With popular government thwarted, citizens had nothing to lose and everything to gain by realizing that the new government was a conspiracy.
The first has to do with how well expectations line up with actualities, whether they are realised or thwarted in the course of one's life.
But they also remained thwarted in their quest for upward mobility.
The largest significant coefficient for left ideology is hardly diminished in absolute magnitude, in moving from thwarted to fulfilled voters (respectively, 4.09 to 3.46).
He interpreted the incident as a microcosm of revolutionary longing thwarted by bourgeois society.
Even if a satisfactory storyline has been created - and as we shall see later this is not inevitable - its continuation may be thwarted.
The narrative followed a cyclical plot structure, in which a dragon is constantly thwarted in his attempts to sleep.
However, the available response can also be thwarted, which will eventually lead to displaced frustration or aggression.
The recurrent rejection by their children and even grandchildren thwarted their generative strivings.
Yet it established a rigid framework that thwarted genuine discussion.
These efforts, however, were thwarted by a combination of factors.
What actions in fulfilling the economic reform agenda might either be facilitated or thwarted by particular constellations of institutional rules and political dynamics?
When bodily changes are so profound as to destroy bodily continuity, people's ability to find meaning in life may be thwarted.
The typology suggests four situations in which nationalism will be engendered, and four in which it will be thwarted.
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