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   Foil

   /foil/

   

   verb

   • 1. prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding: "a brave policewoman foiled the armed robbery"
   • ▪ frustrate the efforts or plans of: "Errol Flynn was a dashing Mountie foiling Nazi agents in Canada"
   • ▪ (of a hunted animal) run over or cross (ground or a scent or track) in such a way as to confuse the hounds.

   noun

   • 1. the track or scent of a hunted animal.
   • 2. a setback in an enterprise; a defeat. archaic

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘trample down’): perhaps from Old French fouler ‘to full cloth, trample’, based on Latin fullo ‘fuller’. Compare with full2.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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