Ruffle vs Frustrate - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between ruffle and frustrate

is that ruffle is to disturb; especially, to cause to flutter while frustrate is to cause stress or panic.

As a noun ruffle

is any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.^{W
As an adjective frustrate is
vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.}

ruffle

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.^(w)

''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

to put the mind in a ruffle

(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .

Synonyms

* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelow

Verb

(ruffl)

To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

Ruffle the end of the cuff.

To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

The wind ruffled the papers.

Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.

* I. Taylor

the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile

* Sir W. Hamilton

These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.

* Dryden

She smoothed the ruffled seas.

* Tennyson

But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

* Shakespeare

The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

* Dryden

On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

* Francis Bacon

They would ruffle with jurors.

* Sir Walter Scott

gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

* Tennyson

[The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

* Chapman

I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.

Derived terms

* ruffly

frustrate

English

Verb

(frustrat)

To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.

It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.

To hinder or thwart.

My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.

To cause stress or panic

This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.

Synonyms

* See also

Adjective

(en adjective)

vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory

* Shakespeare

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Quotations

* (English Citations of "frustrate")