All frustrate synonyms

verb frustrate

• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• lick — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
• stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• forbid — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
• obviate — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
• dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• forestall — to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
• prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
• crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
• overcome — to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat: to overcome the enemy.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• foil — to cover or back with foil.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• annul — If an election or a contract is annulled, it is declared invalid, so that legally it is considered never to have existed.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
• counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.