frustrate
11frustrate — frus|trate [ frʌ,streıt ] verb transitive * to make someone feel annoyed and impatient by preventing them from doing or getting something: She has always been frustrated by her inability to draw. Activists and reformers are frustrated by the… …
12frustrate — 1. verb a) To disappoint or defeat It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all. b) To hinder My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts. 2. a …
13frustrate — verb Frustrate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ambition, ↑effort …
14frustrate — 01. I feel [frustrated] when I do badly on an exam after studying really hard. 02. It is very [frustrating] to put in job applications at places all over town without getting a single reply from anyone. 03. The young boy cried in [frustration]… …
15frustrate — [15] Frustrate comes from Latin frūstrātus ‘disappointed, frustrated’, the past participle of a verb formed from the adverb frūstrā ‘in error, in vain, uselessly’. This was a relative of Latin fraus, which originally meant ‘injury, harm’, hence… …
16frustrate — [[t]frʌstre͟ɪt, AM frʌ̱streɪt[/t]] ♦♦♦ frustrates, frustrating, frustrated 1) VERB If something frustrates you, it upsets or angers you because you are unable to do anything about the problems it creates. [V n] These questions frustrated me...… …
17frustrate — [15] Frustrate comes from Latin frūstrātus ‘disappointed, frustrated’, the past participle of a verb formed from the adverb frūstrā ‘in error, in vain, uselessly’. This was a relative of Latin fraus, which originally meant ‘injury, harm’, hence… …
18frustrate by contrary action — index counter, counteract Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
19frustrate — frustrater, n. frustratingly, adv. frustrative /frus tray tiv, treuh /, adj. /frus trayt/, v., frustrated, frustrating, adj. v.t. 1. to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student s indifference frustrated… …
20frustrate — frus·trate frəs .trāt vt, frus·trat·ed; frus·trat·ing to induce feelings of frustration in …
