foil
— Verb
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～ hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
foil
— Verb
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～ cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"
foil
— Verb
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～ enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
feather-foil
— Noun
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～ a plant of the genus Hottonia
foil
— Noun
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～ a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
foil
— Noun
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～ picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
foil
— Noun
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～ a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
foil
— Noun
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～ a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
foil
— Noun
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～ anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
foiled
— Adjective
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～ disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"
foiling
— Noun
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～ an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
foist
— Verb
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～ to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me"
foist
— Verb
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～ insert surreptitiously or without warrant