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# frustration

«frustration» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cross, upset feeling you get when you cannot do…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (frustration, frustrations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cross, upset feeling you get when you cannot do something or cannot get what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#m1)

2) A thing that causes this feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#m2)

3) Frustration can also mean the act of stopping someone's plans from succeeding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about feelings, frustration comes when a puzzle is hard or a game goes wrong. Children learn calm ways to deal with it: take a deep breath, take a break, ask for help, try again. In stories, frustration can make a character give up or try harder. Phrases: «in frustration», «feel frustration», «a source of frustration».

### examples

- He kicked the ball in frustration when he missed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x1)
- Learning to ride a bike can cause frustration at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x2)
- Take a deep breath when you feel frustration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x3)
- One frustration of camping is the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x4)
- She groaned with frustration at the long sum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x5)
- Talking to someone can help you let your frustration go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x6)
- But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/#x7)

### note

Mostly uncountable (the feeling); countable for things that cause it: «small frustrations». Verb: frustrate; adjectives: frustrated (how you feel), frustrating (what causes it). Frustration is normal; hitting or breaking things is not the right way to show it.

### In the corpora

- [In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/13/)
- [In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes; play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/287-pets-farm-and-wild-animals-safely/15/)
- [That shout is a way of letting out frustration, called venting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/2/)
- [Shouting at the TV is venting, letting out frustration; it changes nothing, and it is not about the child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frustration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.