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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Frustrately :: Frustrately (adv.) In vain.
Dispurpose :: Dispurpose (v. t.) To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots..
Countermine :: Countermine (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
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..
Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Disappoint :: Disappoint (v. t.) To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Frustrated :: Frustrated (imp. & p. p.) of Frustrat.
Delude :: Delude (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint.
Foiler :: Foiler (n.) One who foils or frustrates.
Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat..
Balkingly :: Balkingly (adv.) In a manner to balk or frustrate.
Marplot :: Marplot (n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot..
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.
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Blight :: Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects..
Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed..
Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..
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