Synonyms for foiled
foiled

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1. defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwartedadjective

   disappointingly unsuccessful

   "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

   Synonyms:
   thwarted, disappointed, discomfited, frustrated, defeated

   Antonyms:
   successful

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1. List of paraphrases for "foiled":

   aborted, thwarted, aborting, frustrated, foil, thwart, frustration, foils, smashed

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How to use foiled in a sentence?

1. Mehmet Salih Takil:

   This is what the West fears. All plots of the Zionists, the freemasons, and the children of evil against Turkey will be foiled.

2. President Mahamadou Issoufou:

   The government has just foiled an evil attempt at detribalization. The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don't know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power, they envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram.

3. Abu Musab:

   They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand, we do not know who they were but we foiled them.

4. Mark Rowley:

   You see a terrorist group that has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we've seen foiled to date.

5. Rafi Cohen:

   We foiled a car bomb attack, we have no doubt the woman terrorist who drove the vehicle intended to reach Jerusalem.