dwars over adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
van de ene kant naar de andere adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Finnish

4 entries

poikki adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
sivulla adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
sivulle adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
tielle adv (across the path of something, so as to impede progress)

French

2 entries

d'un coté à l'autre adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
à travers adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Galician

4 entries

a traveso adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
de enxirgo adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
entravés adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
á cadabullo adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

German

1 entries

quer adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Italian

1 entries

di traverso adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Māori

1 entries

tōpeka adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Polish

1 entries

w poprzek adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Russian

3 entries

поперёк adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
напереко́р prep (across the path or course of, so as to oppose)
че́рез prep (from one side to the other side of — see also across)

Sanskrit

1 entries

जिह्म adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Spanish

2 entries

a través adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)
de lado a lado adv (from side to side, often in an oblique manner — see also across)

Sample sentences

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Through the open door shone the hearth fire, sending out its warm red glow athwart the chilly autumn night.

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"Athwart the streets stands ready the array / of steel, and bare is every blade and bright. / Scarce the first warders of the gates essay / to stand and battle in the blinding night."

Source: tatoeba (6817123)

Scarce spake the sire when lo, to leftward crashed / a peal of thunder, and amid the night / a sky-dropt star athwart the darkness flashed, / trailing its torchfire with a stream of light.

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Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.

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