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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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