frustrate

v. foil, thwart; disappoint; make frustrated; defeat; baffle, confound

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Verb
1. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
(synonym) thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk
(hypernym) prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
(hyponym) disappoint, let down
(derivation) frustration
2. treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
(synonym) torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun
(hypernym) harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
(hyponym) madden
(derivation) frustration

v. frustrate, baffle, foil

adj. unfulfilled, frustrated

v. frustrate, foil, thwart; defeat; blight; mock; scotch

v. fail; miscarry

v. znechutit; otrávit; zmařit