Definition of Frustrates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of frustrate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frustrates

1. frustrate [v] - See also: frustrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frustrates

frush
frushed
frushes
frushing
frusht
frust
frusta
frusto-conical
frustoconical
frustrable
frustraneous
frustrate
frustrated
frustratedly
frustrately
frustrates (current term)
frustrating
frustratingly
frustration
frustration-aggression hypothesis
frustration tolerance
frustrations
frustrative
frustratory
frustrum
frusts
frustule
frustules
frustum
frustums

Literary usage of Frustrates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain by Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire (1881)
"Tarleton frustrates Cornwallis' Design of Relieving Ferguson.—Intercepting Fergusons Messengers.— Tarleton at Length in Motion.—His Instructions. ..."

2. A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical from the by Benjamin Trumbull (1818)
"The Dutch governor seizes the company, and frustrates the design. He pursues his former line of conduct towards the colonies. ..."

3. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"RESOLVES. ed him : whereas fear on the other side frustrates a sufficient defence. Themistocles compared a coward to the sword-fish, which hath a weapon, ..."

4. History of the Island of St. Domingo: From Its First Discovery by Columbus by James Barskett (1824)
"His proclamation on the publication of the new constitution —He frustrates a conspiracy for the disturbance of Jamaica.—Sanguinary mar between Christophe ..."

5. The Partition of Africa by John Scott Keltie (1895)
"... possession—Serpa Pinto north of the Zambezi— HH Johnston frustrates Portuguese—Extended British enterprise — A Commissioner appointed to British Central ..."

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