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Word entry · 9 letters

frustrate

Best crossword clue

"Block a plan"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /fɹʌˈstɹeɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aefrrsttuStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To block, prevent, or make a plan difficult to complete.

Word origin

From Middle English frustraten (“to prevent, disappoint, render useless”), from Latin frūstrātus, perfect passive participle of frūstrō (“to deceive”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French frustrer.

Used in a sentence

  • It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
  • My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
  • Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.

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