v.
  - prevent (a plan or action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled. ▸prevent (someone) from doing or achieving something. 
- cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.
adj.
 archaic frustrated.
Derivative
  
    - frustrater n.
- frustrating adj.
- frustratingly adv.
- frustration n.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from L. frustrat-, frustrare ‘disappoint’, from frustra ‘in vain’.