Thwart
Thwart verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.
Use
Use verb - To put into action or service.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Star Trek: Generations, Picard and Kirk can use the Nexus to travel anywhere in time or space to thwart Doctor Soran's plan to blow up a star.
Source: You Can't Thwart Stage One -
Still, the heroes cannot thwart their boss, Hades Izanami, to forcefully brainwash Ragna and prepare to use the Takemikazuchi Embryo to consume all souls in the world.
Source: You Can't Thwart Stage One -
Then Nail tells him the real reason he's laughing: because Nail suckered Frieza into wasting time while a plan by the good guys to use the dragonballs and thwart Frieza was being played out.
Source: Actually Pretty Funny
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Use and Thwart. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/thwart/use
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