Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/August 14

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Word of the day
for August 14
athwart adv (archaic)
  1. From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
  2. Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.
  3. (figuratively) Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.

athwart prep (archaic)

  1. From one side to the other side of; across.
  2. Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.
  3. Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
  4. (figuratively)
    1. Across; through.
    2. Opposed to.
  5. (nautical) Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck.
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