Synonyms for frustrate
ˈfrʌs treɪtfrus·trate

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1. frustrate

   To hinder is to keep from action, progress, motion, or growth, or to make such action, progress, motion, or growth later in beginning or completion than it would otherwise have been. An action is prevented by anything that comes in before it to make it impossible; it is hindered by anything that keeps it from either beginning or ending so soon as it otherwise would, or as expected or intended. It is more common, however, to say that the start is delayed, the progress hindered. An action that is hindered does not take place at the appointed or appropriate time; that which is prevented does not take place at all; to hinder a thing long enough may amount to preventing it. A railroad-train may be hindered by a snow-storm from arriving on time; it may by special order be prevented from starting. To retard is simply to make slow by any means whatever. To obstruct is to hinder, or possibly to prevent advance or passage by putting something in the way; to oppose or resist is to hinder, or possibly to prevent by directly contrary or hostile action, resist being the stronger term and having more suggestion of physical force; obstructed roads hinder the march of an enemy, tho there may be no force strong enough to oppose it; one opposes a measure, a motion, an amendment, or the like; it is a criminal offense to resist an officer in the discharge of his duty; the physical system may resist the attack of disease or the action of a remedy. Compare CONQUER; IMPEDIMENT; OBSTRUCT.

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   Synonyms:
   baffle, balk, bar, block, check, clog, counteract, delay, embarrass, encumber, foil, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, obstruct, oppose, prevent, resist, retard, stay, stop, thwart

   Preposition:
   Hinder one in his progress; from acting promptly; by opposition.

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1. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb

   hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

   "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, foil, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplus

2. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrateverb

   treat cruelly

   "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

   Synonyms:
   bawl out, chide, confound, befuddle, cross, lambast, foil, fox, savage, nark, tease, bedevil, spoil, take to task, bother, blast, rile, rack, gravel, excruciate, trounce, bilk, rally, dun, get to, berate, thwart, torment, torture, crucify, chew out, pillory, baffle, nettle, throw, scotch, chafe, ride, get at, subdue, lecture, irritate, have words, reproof, razz, call down, tantalise, mortify, annoy, tantalize, reprimand, cod, scold, taunt, rebuke, rag, jaw, discombobulate, vex, lambaste, chew up, dress down, confuse, call on the carpet, remonstrate, bait, twit, devil, fuddle

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1. frustrateverb

   Synonyms:
   defeat, disappoint, balk, foil, baffle, disconcert, bring to nought

2. frustrateadjective

   Synonyms:
   vain, useless, ineffectual, frustrated, of no effect

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1. frustrateverb

   Synonyms:
   baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart, circumvent, nullify

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1. List of paraphrases for "frustrate":

   thwart, derail, foil, abort, disappoint, defeat, stymie, scuttle, hinder, counteract

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1. Randy Pearce:

   Don’t get me wrong, I have tough days and there are things that I try to do that frustrate me that are a lot harder because of my blindness.

2. Yoweri Museveni:

   These two mistakes, corruption and delays in decision making, irritate the public and frustrate the investors, this time I will act directly so as to discipline the public service as we discipline the army.

3. Isaac Boltansky:

   This development will surely spook bank purchasers who have become an increasing part of the company’s funding base, further frustrate the investment community, and ultimately result in stricter scrutiny from both federal and state regulators.

4. Michael McCormack:

   This was not an attack, nor was it a hack, but rather it was an attempt to frustrate the collection of Bureau of Statistics census data.

5. Theresa May:

   We must not, and I will not, frustrate what was the largest democratic exercise in this country's history, in the very final stages of this process, the worst thing we could do is lose our focus.