prang vs thwart

prang

verb
  • To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. 

  • To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). 

noun
  • A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand. 

  • An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. 

  • Crack cocaine. 

thwart

verb
  • To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent. 

noun
  • A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. 

  • An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle. 

  • A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. 

adj
  • Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse. 

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