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Another word for frustrate

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Verb

  1. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose

    Idioms:
    See also:

    allow

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Another word for frustrate

Verb
  1. See also:

    prevent

    hinder

    disappoint

Synonym Study

  • To baffle is to defeat the efforts of by bewildering or confusing the crime baffled the police
  • 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
  • Thwart and balk both mean to frustrate by blocking someone or something moving toward some objective
  • To frustrate means to deprive of effect or render worthless an effort directed to some end
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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful ally.

  • 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.

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