[Ads-l] Antedating?: _cross_ "betray or cheat"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

> "To thwart ..."


Definitely close enough for government work, since the two words are
synonyms, abstracting away from the current, peeving use of _frustrate_ to
mean "annoy" aut sim.

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