Frustrate vs Countermine - What's the difference?
frustrate | countermine |
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
To hinder or thwart.
To cause stress or panic
A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 436:
*:Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine , but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
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As verbs the difference between frustrate and countermine
is that frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired while countermine is to plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.As an adjective frustrate
is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.As a noun countermine is
a mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.frustrate
English
Verb
(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.
Synonyms
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* (English Citations of "frustrate")countermine
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Verb
(countermin)- every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.