Meaning frustrate
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frustratehinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire Frustrated after two years of missed budget targets, finance chiefs demanded Greek officials put their verbal commitments into law. — BusinessWeek (Feb [..]
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frustratemid-15c., from Latin frustratus, past participle of frustrari "to deceive, disappoint, make vain," from frustra (adv.) "in vain, in error," related to fraus "injury, harm" [..]
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frustrateto discourage or impede.
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frustrate frustrated.
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frustratefrus·trat·ed frus·trat·ing : to make invalid or ineffectual : defeat [the remedial purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act should not be frustrated by rigid technical ...
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frustrate(v) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of(v) treat cruelly
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frustrate
(transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
''It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.''
(transitive) To hinder or thwart.
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frustratelang=en
* (''English adjective'')
** '''1874''', , , XVI
**:''In all eternity I had one chance,''
**:''One few years' term of gracious human life'' (...)
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