We have spotted FOIL (4 Letters) a total of 24 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with FOIL and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
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To tread under foot; to trample. |
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To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat. |
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To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in
chase. |
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To defile; to soil. |
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Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat;
frustration; miscarriage. |
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A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in
the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point. |
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The track or trail of an animal. |
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A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil;
gold foil. |
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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. |
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Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn
or set off another thing to advantage. |
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A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a
looking-glass, to cause reflection. |
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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. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
Usage among publishers:
- USA Today: Nov 8, 2024
- LA Times: Oct 16, 2024
- USA Today: Sep 22, 2024
- USA Today: Aug 2, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Apr 12, 2024
- New York Times: Feb 21, 2024
- Newsday: Jan 11, 2024
- Universal: Nov 19, 2023
- New York Times: Oct 20, 2023
- LA Times: Sep 22, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Jul 8, 2023
- LA Times: Jul 7, 2023
- Universal: Apr 6, 2023
- Newsday: Feb 7, 2023
- LA Times: Jan 30, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Aug 27, 2022
- Universal: Aug 22, 2022
- Universal: Aug 17, 2022
- LA Times: Aug 12, 2022
- Universal: Jul 19, 2022
- USA Today: Jul 3, 2022
- Universal: Apr 29, 2022
- Newsday: Feb 9, 2022