Frustrate vs Undermine - What's the difference?
frustrate | undermine |
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
To hinder or thwart.
To cause stress or panic
To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 312:
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
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As verbs the difference between frustrate and undermine
is that frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired while undermine is to dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.As an adjective frustrate
is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.frustrate
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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")undermine
English
Verb
(undermin)- Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
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