thwarting, neutralizing, nabbing, sabotaging, scuttling, derailing, intercepting, apprehending, snuffing, snaring, outwitting, snagging, averting, repelling, outsmarting, checkmating, defeating, stopping, squashing, spoiling, disrupting, subduing, combating, forestalling, quelling, countering, nailing, deflecting, preventing, hatching, waylaying, repulsing, frustrate, stymie, snatching, defusing, blocking, devising, outfoxing, vanquishing, unmasking, silencing, eradicating, infiltrating, hijacking, ridding, curbing, taming, uncovering, executing, subverting, nullifying, daring, concocting, botched, squelching, effecting, securing, assassinating, suppressing, entrapping, rescuing, detecting, overthrowing, wrecking, annihilating, discrediting, masterminded, spurring, blunting, preempting, aiding, highjack, ruining, decapitating, busting, exterminating, fashioning, pinning, accomplishing, outmaneuver, dislodging, quashing, dethroning, plotting, detonating, outfighting, scupper, nicking, wresting, counteracting, destroying, initiating, attacking, undermining, ousting, instigating, persuading, protecting, upending, terrorizing, disguising

perverse

hindrance, interference, interfering

frustrating, frustration