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Frustrate   /frˈəstrˌeɪt/   Listen
Frustrate

verb
(past & past part. frustrated; pres. part. frustrating)
1.
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.  Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart.  "Foil your opponent"
2.
Treat cruelly.  Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, rag, torment.






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"Frustrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... conformable, so also we assure ourselves that almighty God will so bless these their loyal hearts borne toward us, their loving sovereign, and their natural country, that all the attempts of any enemy whatsoever shall be made void and frustrate, to their confusion, your comfort, and to ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various

... another narrowing of the field. The effect of the Bible and its religious teaching, on the writer himself is a separate study, and is for the most part left out of consideration. It sounds correct when Milton says: "He who would not be frustrate of his Power to write well ought himself to be a true poem." But there is Milton himself to deal with; irreproachable in morals, there are yet the unhappy years of his young wife to trouble us, and there were his daughters, who were not at peace with him, and whom after their service in his ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... with a necklace can frustrate the intentions of a Ghool, and that every king should have near his person the owner ...
— The Cat and the Mouse - A Book of Persian Fairy Tales • Hartwell James

... to the promise made to old Jacob Nowell, tormented and perplexed him. He felt that he ought to be doing something—that he had no right to remain in ignorance of the progress of Marian's affairs—that he should be at hand to frustrate any attempt at knavery on the part of the lawyer—to be sure that the old man's wealth suffered no diminution before it reached the hands of ...
— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon

... him by all the means in use at Oriental courts. The Ionian mother of his rival furnished the slave who kneaded the bread with poison, telling her to mix it with the dough, but the woman revealed the intended crime to her master, who at once took the necessary measures to frustrate the plot; later on in life he dedicated in the temple of Delphi a statue of gold representing the faithful bread-maker.** The chief of the rival party seems to have been Sadyattes, the banker from whom Croesus had endeavoured to borrow ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) • G. Maspero


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