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   athwart

   /əˈθwɔːt/

   preposition

   • 1. from side to side of; across: "a counter was placed athwart the entrance"
   • 2. in opposition to; counter to: "these statistics run sharply athwart conventional presumptions"

   adverb

   • 1. across from side to side; transversely: "one table running athwart was all the room would hold"
   • 2. so as to be perverse or contradictory: "our words ran athwart and we ended up at cross purposes"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from a-2 ‘on’ + thwart.

   Scrabble Points: 13

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