"frustrate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

frustrate verbo

frustrate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
frustrate one's efforts • frustrate one's attempts • frustrate one's plans • frustrate people • frustrate opponents • ...
(1) effort, attempt
Kolokacji: 2
  • But political conflict and public opposition have frustrated attempts to carry out the law.
  • Since the first trial started, in 1998, he said, city authorities have repeatedly frustrated its attempts to buy or rent places to hold worship services.
  • But, in fact, many companies all but frustrate their customers' attempts to exercise that control.
  • The properties of large land owners who had been able to frustrate previous attempts were eliminated from the map.
  • The commission's limited powers have also frustrated its attempts to investigate high prices in markets where competition does exist.
  • If their connection makes fighting between themselves inadvisable, it also frustrates most other attempts at individual agency.
  • God frustrated their attempts by creating a confusion of languages so the builders could no longer understand each other and the work halted.
  • The President is trying to frustrate attempts by the Opposition to tie him to the scandal.
  • That worry frustrated his attempts at sleeping and nagged at him before the meeting.
  • But analysts said the verdict was likely to frustrate Wyeth's attempts to resolve its liability from the diet drug.
(2) plan, people, opponent, user
Kolokacji: 4
frustrate + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
frustrated by • frustrated with • frustrated at • frustrated in • frustrated to • ...
frustrate + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 12
increasingly frustrated • clearly frustrated • constantly frustrated • repeatedly frustrated • continually frustrated • ...

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