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verb

Frustrate v. t. (past & past part. frustrated; pres. part. frustrating)

To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. "Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine?"

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Synonyms: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.

adjective

Frustrate adj. Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search."

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Etymology of 'Frustrate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frustrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... all, believe me, I beseech you, My father is gone wild into his grave; For in his tomb lie my affections; And with his spirit sadly I survive, To mock the expectations of the world, To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down After my seeming. Though my tide of blood Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now; Now doth it turn and ebb unto the sea, Where it shall mingle with the state of flood, And ...

— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip

... satisfaction thereof (although thou knowest, that I haue full well deserued it) thou to defraude me of my duetie, refusest to be an Aduocate. But I wil tell thee, this thy determination is but vayne and frustrate: for I haue intangled thee in suche nettes, as thou canst not escape: but by one meane or other thou shalt be forced to pay mee. For if the Iudge doe condempne thee, then maugre thy head thou shalt be constrayned: ...

— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter

... comprehend all the positive wishes. Such attitudes as anger, fear, hate, and prejudice are attitudes toward those objects which may frustrate ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... little aware of the uncommon anxieties, pains, and talents that must contribute to the production of such a work; or their reception of it, when completed, would be very different! They would not suffer, surely they would not, as they so frequently do, this or that senseless blockhead to frustrate the labour of years, blast the poet's hopes, and render the birth ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... Hearing a philosopher talk of military affairs How much it costs him to do no worse I need not seek a fool from afar; I can laugh at myself Idleness, the mother of corruption If a passion once prepossess and seize me, it carries me away In sorrow there is some mixture of pleasure Killing is good to frustrate an offence to come, not to revenge Laws cannot subsist without mixture of injustice Least end of a hair will serve to draw them into my discourse Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis ...

— Widger's Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne • David Widger

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