athwart
🇺🇸
/əˈθwɔːrt/
🇬🇧
/əˈθwɔːt/
preposition
R
A way to say something is placed across something else, like a stick across a stream.
The fallen tree lay athwart the narrow path.
R
When something is against or opposite to something else.
The new rule was athwart the old tradition.
translation
A way to say something is placed across something else, like a stick across a stream.; When something is against or opposite to something else.