foil
foil is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To tread under foot; to trample. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To tread under foot; to trample.
- transitive verb. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
- transitive verb. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in chase.
- transitive verb. To defile; to soil.
- noun. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- noun. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
- noun. The track or trail of an animal.
- noun. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- noun. A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones.
- noun. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage.
- noun. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a looking-glass, to cause reflection.
- noun. The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed.
- noun. a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- noun. a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
"the photographic film was wrapped in foil"
- noun. picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- noun. a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
"the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils"
- noun. anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
"pretty girls like plain friends as foils"
- verb. cover or back with foil
"foil mirrors"
- verb. hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
"foil your opponent"
- verb. enhance by contrast
"In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"
Synonyms
transparency, hydrofoil, enhancer, baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in foil:
Common word forms
foils, foiled, foiler, foiling, foilable
Words from these letters
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