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flustrating

flustrating is the present participle and gerund of flustrate.

Meaning of flustrate

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, […]...

Questions about flustrating

What is flustrating the present participle and gerund of?
Flustrating is the present participle and gerund of flustrate.

Words near flustrating in the dictionary

  1. flustramine
  2. flustramines
  3. flustrate
  4. flustrated
  5. flustrates
  6. flustrating
  7. flustration
  8. flustriform
  9. flusulfamide
  10. flutamide
  11. flutazolam

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