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Stoppage vs Thwarting - What's the difference?

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Stoppage is a related term of thwarting.


As nouns the difference between stoppage and thwarting

is that stoppage is a pause or halt of some activity while thwarting is an instance of blocking or obstructing.

As a verb thwarting is

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stoppage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pause or halt of some activity.
  • Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity, a blockage.

    • thwarting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of blocking or obstructing.
  • * (George Eliot)
    • the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.