Read full poem →And seeds were equally in large fields cast,
The ploughman's hopes were frustrate at the last.
The grain-rich goddess in high woods did stray,
Dictionary Entry
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
In a Sentence
“It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
any frustrate
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Poetry examples for “frustrate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It was the design of Senator Lodge, from the
outset, to mutilate the Treaty and to frustrate
the purposes of the Administration. And yet
Read full poem →Such safe jurisdictions, in truth, as the Illinois rowdies
Step from county to county ahead of the frustrate policeman.
And here you have printers to print what you write and a house
Read full poem →But so great joy our life at once outwears;
Then, lest thy love by my death frustrate be,
If thou love me, take heed of loving me.
Read full poem →But so great joy our life at once outwears;
Then, lest thy love by my death frustrate be,
If thou love me, take heed of loving me.
Read full poem →In many a way, and vain essay, I courted Fortune’s favour, O;
Some cause unseen still stept between, to frustrate each endeavour, O;
Sometimes by foes I was o’erpower’d, sometimes by friends forsaken, O;
Read full poem →In many a way, and vain essay, I courted Fortune’s favour, O;
Some cause unseen still stept between, to frustrate each endeavour, O;
Sometimes by foes I was o’erpower’d, sometimes by friends forsaken, O;
Read full poem →Should heav'n, yet unappeas'd, refuse its aid,
Disperse our hopes, and frustrate our designs,
Yet shall the conscience of the great attempt