English-German translations for frustrate

• frustrieren
  Zurückschicken nach Moskau wäre äußerst feige und würde die Beziehungen zur Türkei nur noch unnötig und stärker belasten und frustrieren. Packing him off to Moscow would be to funk the issue, and would merely further complicate and frustrate our relations with Turkey unnecessarily.

Definition of frustrate

• To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired
• To hinder or thwart
• To cause stress or annoyance. overlap with sense 1?--
• ineffectual; useless; fruitless

Examples

• It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all
• My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts
• This test frustrates me because if I fail, itll destroy my grade

Related words

• frustrated
• frustrater
• become frustrated