transcription, транскрипция: [ frʌstreɪt, AM frʌstreɪt ]
( frustrates, frustrating, frustrated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something frustrates you, it upsets or angers you because you are unable to do anything about the problems it creates.
These questions frustrated me...
Doesn’t it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?
VERB : V n , V n
• frus‧trat‧ed
Roberta felt frustrated and angry.
...voters who are frustrated with the council.
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ
• frus‧tra‧tion
(frustrations)
The results show the level of frustration among hospital doctors.
...a man fed up with the frustrations of everyday life.
N-VAR
2.
If someone or something frustrates a plan or attempt to do something, they prevent it from succeeding.
The government has deliberately frustrated his efforts to gain work permits for his foreign staff.
...her frustrated attempt to become governor.
VERB : V n , V-ed