different between wreck vs frustrate
wreck
English
Etymology
From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak), from Proto-Germanic *wrekan?, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic ???????????????????????? (wrikan).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?k, IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
wreck (plural wrecks)
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- Synonym: basket case, mess
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
- the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds
- Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
- 1883, John Richard Green, The Conquest of England
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
- (law) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
Synonyms
- crash
- ruins
Derived terms
- catch wreck
- shipwreck
- train wreck
Translations
Verb
wreck (third-person singular simple present wrecks, present participle wrecking, simple past and past participle wrecked)
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- He wrecked the car in a collision.
- That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
- To ruin or dilapidate.
- (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Antonyms
- build
- construct
- make
- produce
Derived terms
- bewreck
- wrecker
- wreckage
Translations
References
Yola
Noun
wreck
- Alternative form of rocke
wreck From the web:
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frustrate
English
Etymology
From Latin fr?str?tus, perfect passive participle of fr?str? (“I deceive”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f???st?e?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f??st?e?t/
Verb
frustrate (third-person singular simple present frustrates, present participle frustrating, simple past and past participle frustrated)
- (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
- (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hinder
- (transitive) To cause stress or annoyance.
Translations
Adjective
frustrate (comparative more frustrate, superlative most frustrate)
- ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:frustrate.
Translations
Italian
Adjective
frustrate
- feminine plural of frustrato
Noun
frustrate f
- plural of frustrata
Verb
frustrate
- second-person plural present indicative of frustrare
- second-person plural imperative of frustrare
- feminine plural of frustrato
Anagrams
- sfruttare, sfrutterà
Latin
Verb
fr?str?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of fr?str?
frustrate From the web:
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- what frustrated means
- what frustrates siddhartha
- what frustrates you the most in a classroom
- what frustrates you most at work
- what frustrates you examples
- what frustrates death about his appearance
- what frustrates your child
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