thwart
thwart
thwart
Temps | Forme |
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Infinitif | to thwart \θwɔː(r)t\ |
Présent simple, 3e pers. sing. |
thwarts \θwɔː(r)ts\ |
Prétérit | thwarted \θwɔː(r)t.ɪd\ |
Participe passé | thwarted \θwɔː(r)t.ɪd\ |
Participe présent | thwarting \θwɔː(r)t.ɪŋ\ |
voir conjugaison anglaise |
thwart \θwɔː(r)t\ transitif
The double treats Golyadkin Senior with a contemptuous disrespect and he thwarts all the bureaucratic and amorous projects into which Golyadkin Senior enters.— (René Girard (traduit du français en anglais par James G. Williams), Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky, page 23. Michigan State University Press, 1997 (1re édition française : Dostoïevski : du double à l’unité, 1963).)
Intel Corp., the world’s biggest computer-chip maker, was fined a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) by the European Union and ordered to stop using illegal rebates to thwart competitors.— (Bloomberg, mai 2009)
Both forms are infectious and the latter allows HIV to persist in long-lived reservoirs, thwarting efforts to clear HIV from the body.— (Lynn Morris et Tonie Cilliers, chapitre « Viral structure, replication, tropism, pathogenesis and natural history », page 87, dans HIV/AIDS in South Africa (sous la direction de S. S. Abdool Karim et Q. Abdool Karim). Cambridge University Press, 2010 (1re édition : 2005).)
Parliament thwarted Johnson’s attempt to secure backing for his EU divorce deal on Saturday, withholding their approval in order to trigger a law passed last month to force him to send a letter to the bloc asking to push back the deadline to Jan. 31.— (Paul Sandle et Kylie MacLellan (avec la collaboration de Guy Faulconbridge et Jane Merriman), dépêche « Britain is going to leave the EU by October 31 - Gove says ». Reuters, 20 octobre 2019.)
The attack, which occurred at around 06:20 Moscow time, was thwarted by members of the Russian National Guard and army aviation.— (Agence Tass, « Over 15 boats with armed people on way to Energodar from Ukraine — official », 3 septembre 2022. → lire en ligne)