frustrate
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Synonyms & Antonyms for frustrate
Synonyms: Verb
baffle, balk, beat, checkmate, discomfit, foil, thwart
Antonyms: Verb
advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, foster, further, nurture, promote
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Examples of frustrate in a Sentence
Verb
It frustrated him to miss so many games because of injuries. We've been frustrated by bureaucratic delays. Bureaucratic delays have frustrated our efforts to resolve this problem. The lack of investors has frustrated them in their efforts to expand the company.
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Newgarden muscled his way past Pagenaud on his way to winning at WWTR in 2017 and frustrated his teammate when the two had contact late in the race. — Christopher Deharde, Indianapolis Star, "Three things to watch for at IndyCar race at Gateway," 23 Aug. 2019 However, as our relationship has progressed in both affection and duration, this situation has increasingly come to frustrate me. — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, "Carolyn Hax: My girlfriend is hiding our relationship. Is it embarrassment, or something worse?," 18 Aug. 2019 However, as our relationship has progressed in both affection and duration, this situation has increasingly come to frustrate me. — Washington Post, "Carolyn Hax: A DNA test, the seeds of deception and a growing lie," 17 Aug. 2019 Despite Hare's inquiring eye and Everett's charisma, Chekhov's most elusive drama continues to baffle and frustrate more than a century later. — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Uncle Vanya': Theater Review," 31 July 2019 The business would be based in the U.S., removing the Dutch governance structure that has frustrated some Mylan investors and is essentially a takeover defense. — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, "Generic Drug Industry Sees New Giant as Pfizer Merges Off-Patent Unit With Mylan," 29 July 2019 But other merchants say that while customers are frustrated when product isn’t in the store, indie merchants are gaining customers since so many traditional big chain retailers still in the CD business are nevertheless reducing their inventory. — Ed Christman, Billboard, "'An Endless Fiasco': Indie Retailers Describe Worsening Breakdown in Getting CDs, Vinyl Delivered to Record Stores," 16 July 2019 With Katrina’s 14th anniversary approaching, many residents are frustrated it’s taken so long to address the park’s future. — Rebecca Santana, SFChronicle.com, "Relic of Katrina’s wrath in New Orleans may soon meet the wrecking ball," 5 July 2019 Instead Wilentz focuses on the ways in which the Deep South delegates, occasionally (but not always) supported by their fellow slaveholders in the upper South, were frustrated in their efforts to obtain an even more proslavery Constitution. — Nicholas Guyatt, The New York Review of Books, "How Proslavery Was the Constitution?," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'frustrate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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