Other forms: frustrated, frustrating, frustrates
To frustrate is to stop somebody achieving what they wanted. Frustrate the plan, frustrated at every turn, frustrate an attempt.
The transitive sense is about blocking rather than annoying, so a plan is frustrated by circumstances. In contract law, frustration is a doctrine that ends an agreement when something makes performance impossible through nobody's fault.
1verbfrustrateTo stop somebody achieving what they wanted.
“Heavy snow frustrated their attempt to reach the summit.”
frustrate is a blocking.
Latin frustrare means to deceive or disappoint, from frustra, in vain.
Latin
frūstrātus
Middle English
frustraten — to prevent, disappoint, render useless
English, today
frustrate
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From Middle English frustraten (“to prevent, disappoint, render useless”), from Latin frūstrātus, perfect passive participle of frūstrō (“to deceive”), see -ate. Compare French frustrer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA