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/fˈɔɪlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Foil v. t. (past & past part. foiled; pres. part. foiling)

To tread under foot; to trample. " King Richard... caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot." " Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle."

To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. "Her long locks that foil the painter's power."

To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.

Foil v. t. To defile; to soil. (Obs.)

noun

Foiling n. (Arch.) A foil.

Foiling n. (Hunting) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.

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Etymology of 'Foiling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... not see," replied Veronique, "that he is thus avoiding their temptations and foiling their efforts? He is making himself a wild ...

— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac

... the grey car ate up the distance between the links and George's cottage. Reggie Byng passed these minutes, in the intervals of eluding carts and foiling the apparently suicidal intentions of some stray fowls, in jerky conversation on the subject of his iron-shots, with which he expressed a ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... I pray, Of your kind patience. Sir, ere you proceed, I have a word to give you. I have heard Tales of your cleverness in foiling twice The Devil who sought to lead you to resign Your will to his. Perhaps it was not well That you so spurned his euthanasia. By your own devious path, you come at last To where all facts are vain, all visions fade, And your old wager is a laughing-stock, ...

— Mr. Faust • Arthur Davison Ficke

... discuss the subject of her father's wrongdoing with him. He was also once more overwhelmingly sorry for her. There was nobody she could turn to for support or sympathy, and it was evident that if he succeeded in foiling Hames, it would alienate her from her father. Waynefleet, he felt, was not likely to forgive her for the efforts she had made to save him from being drawn into an act ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

... which I had previously resented in him evinced itself now; and even had I lacked reasons other than personal for foiling him I should certainly have returned a reply ...

— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer

... the seaman explained how he thought it possible to stultify the wizard, by discrediting him in the eyes of his own people—by foiling him with his own weapons,—and himself undertook to accomplish ...

— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne