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Synonyms for foiled
foiled
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Princeton's WordNet
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, defeatedAntonyms:
successful
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "foiled":
aborted, thwarted, aborting, frustrated, foil, thwart, frustration, foils, smashed
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#9704 | disappointed | |
#10565 | defeated | |
#10816 | foil | |
#13243 | frustration | |
#13265 | frustrated | |
#26251 | smashed | |
#27078 | aborted | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#38090 | foils | |
#42492 | thwarted | |
#49060 | foiled | |
#61870 | aborting | |
#206494 | discomfited |
How to use foiled in a sentence?
This is what the West fears. All plots of the Zionists, the freemasons, and the children of evil against Turkey will be foiled.
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.
They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand, we do not know who they were but we foiled them.
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.
We foiled a car bomb attack, we have no doubt the woman terrorist who drove the vehicle intended to reach Jerusalem.
Translations for foiled
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- frustradoSpanish
- नाकाम कर दियाHindi
- だまされたJapanese
- украшенный лиственный орнаментRussian
- thất bạiVietnamese
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