Thwarting

thwarting
    adj 1: preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn:
           {frustrating}, {frustrative}, {thwarting}]
    n 1: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn:
         {frustration}, {thwarting}, {foiling}]
    

Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thwarted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Thwarting}.]
   1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow
      thwarts the air. [Obs.]
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            Swift as a shooting star
            In autumn thwarts the night.          --Milton.
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   2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to
      contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
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            If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak.
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            The proposals of the one never thwarted the
            inclinations of the other.            --South.
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "thwarting":
      annulment, bafflement, balk, balking, buck-passing, cancellation,
      check, checkmate, circumvention, confounding, counterbalancing,
      defeat, discomfiture, disconcertion, elusion, evasion, foil,
      foiling, frustration, getting around, getting round, invalidation,
      neutralization, nullification, offsetting, outguessing,
      outmaneuvering, outwitting, passing the buck, the runaround,
      the slip, undoing, upset, vitiation, voiding