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foiledverbpast tense of foil to prevent from achieving a goalin popular fiction the hero will always foil the villain's plans baffled, balked, beat, checkmated, discomfited, frustrated, thwarted barred, blocked, clogged, encumbered, fettered, hampered, handicapped, held back, hindered, hobbled, impeded, inhibited, interfered (with), manacled, obstructed, shackled, tied up, trammeled(or trammelled)arrested, checked, halted, set back, short-circuited, stalled, stoppedaverted, forestalled, obviated, precluded, preventednegated, neutralized, nullifiedcounteracted, offsetconquered, defeated, overcame advanced, cultivated, encouraged, forwarded, fostered, furthered, nurtured, promoted abetted, aided, assistedeased, facilitated, smoothed in 1835 |