ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere (avoid ad nihil redigere in this sense: it is strictly, “to reduce to nothing,” Lucr., Liv.): disturbare (unsettle what had been settled): perimere (destroy): to be baffled, irritum fieri; ad irritum cadere, or recidere, or venire: to baffle expectation, spem fallere, or ludere, or destitucre: to see one’s hopes baffled, spem perdere; spe excidere; a spe decidere; spe dejici: one’s hope is baffled, spes ad irritum cadit, or redigitur: to baffle all a person’s plans, conturbare alicui omnes rationes: if some accidents or avocation had not baffled his design, nisi aliqui casus aut occupatio ejus consilium peremisset: death baffles all his hopes and all his plans, omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia mors pervertit. In this manner was this undertaking baffled, ita frustra id inceptum iis fuit.