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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: foiled (0.00925 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to foiled.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: foil
floret, menggagalkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: foiled
foiled
adj : 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” [syn:
defeated,
disappointed,
discomfited,
frustrated,
thwarted]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Foiled
Foil
\Foil\ (foil), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Foiled (foild); p. pr.
& vb. n.
Foiling.] [F. fouler to tread or trample under
one's feet, to press, oppress. See
Full, v. t.]
1. To tread under foot; to trample.
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King Richard . . . caused the ensigns of Leopold to
be pulled down and foiled under foot. --Knoless.
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Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle,
In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
--Spenser.
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2. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
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And by ? mortal man at length am foiled. --Dryden.
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Her long locks that foil the painter's power.
--Byron.
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3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in
chase. --Addison.
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