1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
   - thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk 
2. Treat cruelly
   - torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun

Derived forms: frustrated, frustrating, frustrates

See also: frustration, frustrative

Type of: beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, forbid, foreclose, forestall, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, preclude, prevent, provoke

• vacuousness
• vacuum
• vacuum aspiration
• vacuum bag
• vacuum bomb
• vacuum bottle
• vacuum chamber
• vacuum cleaner
• vacuum flask
• vacuum gage
• vacuum gauge
• vacuum pump
• vacuum tube
• vacuum-clean
• vacuum-packed
• vade mecum
• vadose
• vadose zone
• Vaduz
• vagabond
• vagabondage
• vagal
• vagarious
• vagary
• vagile