Synonyms:
thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Meaning: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
Usage examples
1876--To frustrate repetition of body-snatchers' attempt, reinterred deeper.
Nor is there anything which tends more to discredit and frustrate the better means of influencing conduct, than a resort to the worse.
The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. He cannot, to be sure, by his present reactions affect to-morrow's weather, but he may take some steps which will influence future happenings, if only to postpone the proposed picnic.