Definition of frustrate

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Frustrate (v. t.) 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..

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Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
Dispurpose :: Dispurpose (v. t.) To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots..
Dash :: Dash (v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin..
Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) 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..
Delude :: Delude (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like..
Blight :: Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Dish :: Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Frustrately :: Frustrately (adv.) In vain.
Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..
Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..
Frustrable :: Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Blight :: Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects..
Balkingly :: Balkingly (adv.) In a manner to balk or frustrate.
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.
Disappoint :: Disappoint (v. t.) To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.
Counterplot :: Counterplot (v. t.) To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem..
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