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 New English Vocabulary Word of the Day

 Frustrate (verb) [fruhs-treyt] phonetic pronounication

 Using frustrate in a sentence :
 –verb (used with object)

1. To make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify:

The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts  to help him. 
 

2. To disappoint or thwart (a person): a talented woman whom life had frustrated. 

 –verb (used without object)

3. To become frustrated: His trouble is that he frustrates much too easily. 

 –adjective

4. Frustrated - disappointed; thwarted: an announcer who was a frustrated actor. 
Having a feeling of or filled with frustration; dissatisfied: His unresolved difficulty left him absolutely frustrated.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L frustrātus, ptp. of frustrārī, v. deriv. of frustrā in vain
 

Related forms:

frus⋅trat⋅er, noun
frus⋅trat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
frus⋅tra⋅tive, adjective

Synonyms:
1. balk, foil, circumvent. 

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