Antonyms for foiled
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : foild |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔɪld |
Definition of foiled
Origin :- c.1300, foilen "to spoil a trace or scent by running over it," irregularly from Old French fouler "trample," from Vulgar Latin *fullare "to clean cloth" (by treading on it), from Latin fullo "one who cleans cloth, fuller," of unknown origin.
- Hence, "to overthrow, defeat" (1540s). Sense of "frustrate the efforts of" first recorded 1560s. Related: Foiled; foiling. Foiled again! as a cry of defeat and dismay is from at least 1847.
- verb circumvent, nip in the bud
- You have foiled me, and conquered: be it so; I congratulate you.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Greenwich party, foiled in this attempt, now disavowed it.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Seeing me foiled, Charley advanced with the doubtful aid of a sophism to help me.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- By this simple method, the bees which come to make the attack will be foiled, and constrained to act with great disadvantage.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- If you fail in the former, you will often be foiled in your attempts at the latter.
- Extract from : « The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases » by Charles West, M.D.
- Yes, it is I, Ivan Saranoff, the man whom you have so often foiled.
- Extract from : « The Great Drought » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
- But Danbury scarcely looked around to see who had foiled him.
- Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- But she was foiled; old Mrs. Maxwell had already bespoke him.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- Their joy was that neither had foiled the hope of the other.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various
- I had done too much already to permit myself to be foiled at the end.
- Extract from : « In Direst Peril » by David Christie Murray
Synonyms for foiled
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bilk
- bollix
- buffalo
- check
- checkmate
- counter
- crab
- cramp
- crimp
- curb
- dash
- defeat
- disappoint
- disconcert
- ditch
- dodge
- duck
- elude
- faze
- foul up
- frustrate
- get around
- give the run-around
- give the slip
- hang up
- hinder
- juke
- nullify
- outwit
- prevent
- rattle
- restrain
- run circles around
- run rings around
- shake
- shake off
- shuffle off
- skip
- stop
- stymie
- throw monkey wrench in
- thwart
- upset the apple cart
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