| VERB | social | frustrate, thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of |
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| emotion | frustrate, torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun | treat cruelly |
| Sounds | frah'strey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge" | |
| Synonyms | thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk | |
| Narrower | dash | Destroy or break |
| disappoint, let down | fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | |
| ruin | Destroy or cause to fail | |
| short-circuit | hamper the progress of | |
| Broader | prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid | Keep from happening / happening or arising |
| Spanish | contrariar, defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, estropear, frustrar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, desbaratar, estafar, frustrar, trastornar | |
| Adjectives | frustrative | preventing realization or attainment of a desire |
| Nouns | frustration | an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts |
| frustration | the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | |
| frustration | a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized | |
| Meaning | treat cruelly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The performance is likely to frustrate Sue | |
| Synonyms | torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun | |
| Narrower | hamstring | make ineffective or powerless |
| madden | Drive up the wall | |
| persecute, oppress | Cause to suffer | |
| tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer | annoy persistently | |
| Broader | harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke | annoy continually or chronically |
| Spanish | atormentar, frustrar, martirizar, torturar | |
| Catalan | frustrar, martiritzar, torturar, turmentar | |
| Nouns | frustration | a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized |
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