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List of meaning for athwart

diagonally; crossways

athwart(adverb)

at right angles to the center line of a ship

obliquely, aslant, athwart(adverb)

at an oblique angle

"the sun shone aslant into his face"

from one side to the other of an intervening space

after it enters the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane is predicted to advance athwart to the Texas coastline

in a line or direction running from corner to corner

we hung the twisted strips of crepe paper athwart to the floor and ceiling so that they formed giant crosses on all four walls

to the opposite side of

athwart the road was farmland as far as the eye could see

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