frustrate / ˈfrʌs treɪt /

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frustrate3 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing.

  1. to make worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  2. to disappoint or thwart: a talented woman whom life had frustrated.
v. 无主动词 verb

frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing.

  1. to become frustrated: His trouble is that he frustrates much too easily.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. Obsolete. frustrated.

frustrate 近义词

v. 动词 verb

thwart, disappoint

更多frustrate例句

  1. The technology prevents brief silence between songs, which could frustrate listeners and cause them to switch to a rival.
  2. Rivera has grown increasingly frustrated by the response to the pandemic from many industry leaders.
  3. It is in the shadow of that rule that so many of our other policy debates come to naught, leaving voters frustrated and confused.
  4. As a first-year graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Manthiram remembers being frustrated that his experiments weren’t turning out as expected.
  5. The class was especially intrigued by recent molecular analysis of pottery, yet frustrated by the brevity of the studies done to date on the topic.
  6. The delays would cause chaos and snarl traffic at checkpoints, frustrate orderly schedules, and make tempers short.
  7. Such side-stepping will frustrate newcomers in search of elucidation, or at the very least a fuller picture.
  8. The federal and state governments create cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all solutions that frustrate rather than serve.
  9. As a result, using the language of war may only serve to frustrate and mislead the public.
  10. But deadlock in Congress, with the focus on debt instead of demand, continues to frustrate the recovery.
  11. Your indomitable bravery will suffice to frustrate the attempt to carry out their plans.
  12. Perrott, who wished to hunt out rather than pardon him, watched the ports so carefully as to frustrate many attempts at evasion.
  13. Mussulmans took, of course, no precautions against it; for how could merely boiling the water frustrate the Will of Allah?
  14. Did she, like the rest of them, suspect me of seeking to frustrate his suit by withholding his fortune?
  15. It really looked as though they were aware of my presence, had divined my purpose, and were determined to frustrate it.