Devastate vs Frustrate - What's the difference?
devastate | frustrate |
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
To hinder or thwart.
To cause stress or panic
As verbs the difference between devastate and frustrate
is that devastate is to ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest while frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.As an adjective frustrate is
vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.devastate
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(frustrat)- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
- This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.