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noun | verb foilfoil1 /fɔɪl/ ●○○ noun ETYMOLOGYfoil1Origin: 1300-1400 Old French Latin folium leaf 1 [uncountable] metal sheets that are thin like paper, used for wrapping food: Cover the turkey with foil.2be a foil for/to somebody/something to make the good qualities of someone or something more noticeable: Roasted red peppers are a sweet foil to the slightly bitter spinach.3[countable] a light narrow sword used in fencing noun | verb foilfoil2 verb [transitive often passive] ETYMOLOGYfoil2Origin: 1300-1400 French fouler to step on VERB TABLEfoil |
Present | I, you, we, they | foil | | he, she, it | foils | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | foiled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have foiled | | he, she, it | has foiled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had foiled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will foil | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have foiled |
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Present | I | am foiling | | he, she, it | is foiling | | you, we, they | are foiling | Past | I, he, she, it | was foiling | | you, we, they | were foiling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been foiling | | he, she, it | has been foiling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been foiling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be foiling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been foiling |
to prevent someone from doing something he or she had planned to do, especially to prevent someone from doing something illegal: The escape attempt was foiled by police guards. |