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Frustration :: Frustration (n.) The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Foil :: Foil (v. t.) To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.

Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..

Fight :: Fight (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against..

Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Rout :: Rout (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete..

Confusion :: Confusion (n.) Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..

Frustrable :: Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Disappointment :: Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass..

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