Synonyms of the word

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

baffle

• v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
• v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
• v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
• v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
• n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
• n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
• n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

bedevil

• v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
• v. To perplex or bewilder.

beset

• v. (transitive) To surround or hem in.
• v. (transitive) To attack, especially from all sides.
• v. (transitive) To decorate something with jewels etc.
• v. (nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

bilk

• n. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• n. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
• v. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• v. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

chevy

• n. A hunt or pursuit.
• n. A cry used in hunting.
• n. The game of prisoners' bars.
• v. to hunt or chase.

chivvy

• v. To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
• v. To coerce, as by persistent request.
• v. To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
• v. To pursue as in a hunt.
• n. A goad.

chivy

• n. A hunt or chase.
• n. A hunting cry.
• v. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
• v. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To scurry.

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

dun

• n. A brownish grey colour.
• adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
• n. (countable) A collector of debts.
• n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
• v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
• v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
• n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
• n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
• n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
• n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
• n. A mound or small hill.
• interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

harass

• v. To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
• v. To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
• v. To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
• n. (obsolete) devastation; waste.
• n. (obsolete) worry; harassment.

harry

• v. (transitive) To harass, stress, badger, bother; to distress, trouble, or tire with demands, threats, or…
• v. To strip; to lay waste.

hassle

• n. Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.
• n. A fight or argument.
• n. An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.
• v. To trouble, to bother, to annoy.
• v. To pick a fight or start an argument.

molest

• v. To annoy intentionally.
• v. To disturb or tamper with.
• v. To sexually abuse, especially a minor.

plague

• n. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused…
• n. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
• n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
• n. A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
• v. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
• v. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

provoke

• v. (transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
• v. (transitive) To bring about a reaction.
• v. (obsolete) To appeal.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

thwart

• v. (transitive) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
• n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel…
• n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• adj. (figuratively) Perverse; crossgrained.
• adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).