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Another word for foil

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Verb

  1. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose

    Idioms:
    See also:

    allow

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Another word for foil

Noun

  1. Leaf metal

  2. A person or thing that sets off another

    See also:

    opposite

    contrast

Verb
  1. See also:

    frustrate

    prevent

    hinder

    defeat

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Sentence Examples

  • in one variety of this fabric, a slip of gold foil is laid under each wire, and left in position after the wire is withdrawn, the cutting tool being then used with freedom in some parts of the design, so that the gold gleams through the severed thread, producing a rich and suggestive effect.

  • Hilprecht, The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania (1893 foil.); P. J.

  • Dennstedt, which was first proposed in 1902, the substance is vaporized in a tube containing at one end platinum foil, platinized quartz, or platinized asbestos.

  • Gentile (1907 foil.), with notes by the latter.

  • 258 foil.; Wm.

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