Definitions for foiled

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Spelling: [foild]

IPA: /fɔɪld/

Foiled is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in foiled (defilo).

Definitions for foiled

noun

1. Archaic. a defeat; check; repulse.
2. metal in the form of very thin sheets:
3. the metallic backing applied to glass to form a mirror.
4. a thin layer of metal placed under a gem in a closed setting to improve its color or brilliancy.
5. a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast:
6. Architecture. an arc or a rounded space between cusps, as in the tracery of a window or other ornamentation.
7. an airfoil or hydrofoil.

adjective

1. ornamented with foils, as a gable, spandrel, or balustrade.

verb (used with object)

1. to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk:
2. to keep (a person) from succeeding in an enterprise, plan, etc.
3. to cover or back with foil.
4. to set off by contrast.

Origin of foiled

First recorded in 1655-65; foil² + -ed³

Examples for foiled

Seeing me foiled, Charley advanced with the doubtful aid of a sophism to help me.

Among them was an attempt in 2011—foiled at the last minute—to plant a homemade backpack bomb at a Martin Luther King Jr.

In 2002, an Islamist plot to poison the London underground with ricin was foiled as well.

By this simple method, the bees which come to make the attack will be foiled, and constrained to act with great disadvantage.

The Greenwich party, foiled in this attempt, now disavowed it.

But then the Bangladeshi whose bomb plot was foiled yesterday turned his aim to the New York Fed.

If you fail in the former, you will often be foiled in your attempts at the latter.

You have foiled me, and conquered: be it so; I congratulate you.

Twice in the last two years, the Saudis foiled al Qaeda plots to attack American cities.

A few days later, an Associated Press story reported that Western intelligence agencies had foiled an AQAP plot.