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Meaning frustrate meaning

What does frustrate mean?
Definitions in simple English

frustrate Verb

— If you frustrate someone, then you make him annoyed or upset. He is frustrated because his car is broken and doesn't start.

frustrate

— verb (= foil) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge foil your opponent — verb (= torment) treat cruelly The children tormented the stuttering teacher

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frustrate English » English

thwart foil baffle spoil scotch defeat disappoint cross confound bilk queer obstruct hinder block stymy stymie stop prevent forestall check torment rag interrupt impede hamper exasperate embarrass dun crucify break bedevil balk Hinder worry weary vex tribulate trammel snooker shut short-circuit scrap ruin rout restrain render useless render fruitless pressure press oppress

Topics frustrate topics

What do people use frustrate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Disappointed
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Angry

Annoyed

Conjugation frustrate conjugation

How do you conjugate frustrate?

frustrate · verb

Examples frustrate examples

How do I use frustrate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

And you can't keep her caged all the time that would only frustrate her and could make her vicious.
But you frustrate me to no end.
All it does is frustrate man.
All it does is remind him of his limitations and frustrate him.
Maybe it'll just frustrate him.
Protect those, particularly the queen, and we can frustrate him.
Fight fans know and respect that and many of them are wondering whether he can frustrate and beat a much younger, stronger champion.
Oh, God, those flat ones frustrate me.
When you frustrate them, they lose focus.
Frustrate him.
You frustrate me. If I hear you have any contact with your old life again, you will have a torment come down upon you that you cannot imagine.
It's gonna frustrate him.
In a typical event, the bull enters and is approached by men who exhaust and frustrate him by running him in circles and tricking him into collisions.
If that's gonna frustrate you.
Me! Me to keep home, pen up, frustrate!
In some peculiar way, I like you, but you frustrate me.
I frustrate you?
But you must give your word to me, your commander, and to your comrades-in-arms that you'll never again frustrate our platoon's tactical exercises.
HANNIBAL: We tend to frustrate him.
Well, we didn't get paid, but we did manage to frustrate Decker. which is almost as good as money.
To frustrate or annoy? Tell me about it.
To annoy or frustrate?
When you frustrate them, they lose focus. They even get violent.
The purpose of this interview is to frustrate such an encounter.
Who's only feeling is of rage, when frustrated. And only fun, destroying those who frustrate him.
You frustrate me so easily!
A thing you can't see can exert pressure can frustrate my wish to fill this vessel with water if I were dumb enough to leave my thumb on the neck.
Maybe it'll just frustrate him. - I don't think so, Harry.
You do all this great work on the street, and they won't give you a gold shield. That must frustrate you.
Or did the madam withhold you to frustrate me?

News and current affairs

It reflects the impact of fundamental (and historic) economic and financial re-alignments, insufficient policy responses, and system-wide rigidities that frustrate structural change.
True, these EU requirements were not designed simply to frustrate Russia.
Some display separatist tendencies that worry, and frustrate, their electorates.
Not only is there a danger that such obstacles will frustrate attempts to free the market but, equally, that overcoming political obstacles will destroy the advantages of freeing the market.
Terrorists cannot be allowed to forever frustrate the search for peace.
Its checks and balances were meant to frustrate any such mission at the hands of an all-powerful executive, and it is doubtful that Americans would support such activism in perpetuity.
Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey's EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island's north.

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