Definition of Frustrate

Frustrate

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

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Frustrate Quotations

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
Harry Mathews

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.
Michael Chertoff

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.
Kirsten Dunst

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
Andrew Cuomo

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.
William Rehnquist

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
F. Lee Bailey

I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.
John Buchanan

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Frustrate Translations

frustrate in Dutch is frustreren
frustrate in French is frustrons, frustrent, frustrer, frustrez
frustrate in German is frustrieren, frustriere
frustrate in Norwegian is forpurre, frustrere
frustrate in Portuguese is frustre

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