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Another word for frustrate

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frustrate

v.

prevent, thwart, defeat, foil, balk, baffle, nullify, stymie, disappoint, discourage; see also disappoint, hinder, prevent.

to frustrate means to deprive of effect or render worthless an effort directed to some end; thwart and balk both mean to frustrate by blocking someone or something moving toward some objective; foil means to throw off course so as to discourage further effort or make it of no avail our plans were foiled by bad weather; to baffle is to defeat the efforts of by bewildering or confusing the crime baffled the police

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Another word for frustrate

verb

To prevent from accomplishing a purpose:

baffle, balk, check, checkmate, defeat, foil, stymie, thwart. (Informal) cross, stump. Idiom: cut the ground from under. See allow

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Rather than frustrate him, he found it entertaining.
"It makes me happy that I might frustrate him as much as he does me," she said.
She helped to frustrate the conspiracy with France which John concocted during Richard's captivity.
The change in the government of the church, the rival council of Pisa, the ecclesiastical and political dissensions within and without the council, and the lack of disinterestedness on the part of its members, all combined to frustrate the hopes which its convocation had awakened.
He hoped for assistance from the friendly Nabataeans; but, as they owed everything to their position as middlemen for the South-Arabian trade, which a direct communication between Rome and the Sabaeans would have ruined, their viceroy Syllaeus, who did not dare openly to refuse help, sought to frustrate the emperor's scheme by craft.

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