Third person singular present tense of frustrate; causes annoyance or disappointment by preventing someone from achieving something.
From Latin 'frustrare' (to deceive, disappoint) through Old French. The verb entered English in the 1500s and remains common today.
The word 'frustrate' literally means 'to make false' in Latin—our ancestors thought of frustration as being deceived by broken hopes, which is a surprisingly poetic way to think about it!
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