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frustrate, thwart, foil, baffle, balk mean to check or defeat another's plan or block achievement of a goal. frustrate implies making vain or ineffectual all efforts however vigorous or persistent.
FOIL definition: 1. a very thin sheet of metal, especially used to wrap food in to keep it fresh: 2. a piece of a…. Learn more.
- (Metallurgy) metal in the form of very thin sheets: gold foil; tin foil. 2. (Ceramics) the thin metallic sheet forming the backing of a mirror 3. (Jewellery) a thin leaf of shiny metal set under a gemstone to add brightness or colour
Definition of foil noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled) To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast: The straight man was an able foil to the comic. Architecture an arc or a rounded space between cusps, as in the tracery of a window or other ornamentation.
Foil, solid metal that has been reduced to a leaflike thinness by mechanical beating or rolling. Jewellers have long used a thin foil of copper-zinc alloy as backing for paste jewels and inferior gemstones.
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