foil¹ /foil/

1. To defeat
2. To baffle
3. To frustrate
4. To beat down or trample with the feet (obsolete)
5. To destroy a trail by crossing (hunting)

1. A check, repulse or frustration (obsolete)
2. An incomplete fall in wrestling
3. A blunt fencing sword with a button on the point

put on the foil

To overcome or bring to nothing

foil² /foil/

1. A leaf or thin plate of metal, eg tinfoil
2. A mercury coating on a mirror
3. Metal-coated paper
4. A thin leaf of metal put under a precious stone to show it to advantage
5. Anything that serves to set off something else
6. A small arc in tracery
7. An aerofoil or hydrofoil

foiled adjective

foilˈing noun

foilˈborne adjective

(of a craft) lifted up from, or travelling along, the water on hydrofoils

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