frustrate
pronunciation
How to pronounce frustrate in British English:
UK [frʌˈstreɪt]
How to pronounce frustrate in American English:
US [ˈfrʌstreɪt]
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- Verb:
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- treat cruelly
Word Origin
- frustrate
- frustrate: [15] Frustrate comes from Latin frūstrātus ‘disappointed, frustrated’, the past participle of a verb formed from the adverb frūstrā ‘in error, in vain, uselessly’. This was a relative of Latin fraus, which originally meant ‘injury, harm’, hence ‘deceit’ and then ‘error’ (its English descendant, fraud [14], preserves ‘deceit’). Both go back to an original Indo- European *dhreu- which denoted ‘injure’.=> fraud
- frustrate (v.)
- mid-15c., from Latin frustratus, past participle of frustrari "to deceive, disappoint, make vain," from frustra (adv.) "in vain, in error," related to fraus "injury, harm" (see fraud). Related: Frustrated; frustrating.
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Example
- 1. Delight and satisfy your visitors , rather than frustrate and annoy them , with smart design decisions .
- 2. Mr williams says that in china , imbalances are rebounding and powerful vested interests are likely to frustrate efforts at rapid reform .
- 3. Hong kong 's market regulator seized voting documents from a pccw shareholders meeting last night , in a dramatic twist that could frustrate richard li 's plans to take his hong kong telecommunications company private .
- 4. The spanish government has been doing its best to frustrate the bid for endesa from germany 's e. on , trying instead to promote an internal spanish merger between endesa and gas natural , a smaller local energy company .
- 5. Despite china 's disdain for the american-led invasions of iraq and afghanistan ( the latter bringing the american army right to china 's border ) , it has not attempted to frustrate american operations in either country .