obsistere: repugnare: obniti: reniti: adversari aliquem (☞ not alicui). (The words are found in this connection and order.) adversari et repugnare: obstare or officere alicui and alicui rei alicujus (with this difference, that obstaremeans merely to be in anybody’s way; officere, however, to be opposed to him in a hostile manner; e.g., to thwart anybody’s plans, alicujus consiliis obstare or officere, observing, however, the difference of meaning just alluded to): retardare aliquem, in anything, ad aliquid faciendum or ab aliqua re facienda, in aliqua re (to thwart anybody in anything, or in the execution of anything; e.g., in his privileges, in suo jure). To thwart anybody’s designs, alicujus consilia pervertere: to see one’s hope thwarted, spes ad irritum cadit or redigitur: to thwart anybody’s whole plan, conturbare alicui omnes rationes: if accidents and engagements had not thwarted his projects, nisi aliquis casus aut occupatio ejus consilium premisset: to thwart anybody in every thing, omnia adversus aliquem facere: to thwart one another’s designs, obtrectare inter se (of two rivals): to thwart one’s own interest, repugnare utilitati suae.