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Common collocations with frustration in American Collocation

frustration noun

US /frʌˈstreɪʃ(ə)n/

complete

sheer
utter

Any moment now, I’m going to thump the monitor out of sheer frustration.

great

big
considerable
deep
great
much

It is a source of great frustration to see all this funding go to ineffective programmes.

increasing

growing
increasing
mounting

There is a growing frustration with the slow progress of the trial.

not expressed and difficult to control

pent-up

She needed an outlet for the pent-up frustrations that had developed over time.

sexual

sexual

It is a song about lust and sexual frustration.

express frustration

express
show
take out
vent

He is making daily calls to express his frustration at the lack of progress.

Many seemed keen to take their frustration out on the police.

feel frustration

experience
feel

We have all experienced the frustrations of having new equipment arrive faulty.

cause frustration

cause
lead to
result in

Expectations that are unfulfilled can too easily lead to frustration.

understand someone else’s frustration

share
understand

I understand frustrations about the slow progress in dealing with this issue.

start being felt

creep in

At time frustration crept in and we wondered if we had done the right thing.

become stronger

boil over
mount

His frustration mounted as he struggled to teach himself to walk again.

when someone feels frustration

feeling
sense

By now about an hour had gone by and the sense of frustration was beginning to grow.

where frustration comes from

source

It has become a source of frustration that there is no basic standard for transcribing data of this kind.