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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Counterplot :: Counterplot (v. t.) To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem..
Balkingly :: Balkingly (adv.) In a manner to balk or frustrate.
Frustrately :: Frustrately (adv.) In vain.
Countermine :: Countermine (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Frustrable :: Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Dish :: Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Counteract :: Counteract (v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice..
Frustrated :: Frustrated (imp. & p. p.) of Frustrat.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate..
Scatter :: Scatter (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like..
Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..
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.
Blight :: Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Blight :: Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects..
Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation..
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