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flustrate

flustrate verb: to fluster or frustrate.

Verb

flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)

  1. (colloquial) To fluster or frustrate.
    • We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch1712 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “WEDNESDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […]...

Forms of flustrate

third-person singular presentflustrates
present participleflustrating
past participleflustrated
pastflustrated

Origin of flustrate

From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about flustrate

What does flustrate mean?
Flustrate means to fluster or frustrate.
What part of speech is flustrate?
Flustrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of flustrate?
The past tense of flustrate is flustrated.

Words near flustrate in the dictionary

  1. flusterments
  2. flusters
  3. flustery
  4. flustramine
  5. flustramines
  6. flustrate
  7. flustrated
  8. flustrates
  9. flustrating
  10. flustration
  11. flustriform

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