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Crossword-Solution: FOIL 4 letters, 189 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Foil v. t. To tread under foot; to trample.
Foil v. t. To render (an effort or attempt) vain or nugatory; to
baffle; to outwit; to balk; to frustrate; to defeat.
Foil v. t. To blunt; to dull; to spoil; as, to foil the scent in
chase.
Foil v. t. To defile; to soil.
Foil n. Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat;
frustration; miscarriage.
Foil n. A blunt weapon used in fencing, resembling a smallsword in
the main, but usually lighter and having a button at the point.
Foil n. The track or trail of an animal.
Foil n. A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil;
gold foil.
Foil n. 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.
Foil n. Anything that serves by contrast of color or quality to adorn
or set off another thing to advantage.
Foil n. A thin coat of tin, with quicksilver, laid on the back of a
looking-glass, to cause reflection.
Foil n. 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.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
FOIL anagram FILO, FOLI, LIFO, LOFI

We have 189 clues for the answer “FOIL”

Clue Answers
ALUMINIUM 1 answer
Abbott, to Costello, e.g. 1 answer
Alternative to saran wrap 1 answer
Aluminum product 1 answer
Aluminum product in the kitchen 1 answer
Aluminum sheet 1 answer
Aluminum sheet in the kitchen 1 answer
Aluminum wrap 1 answer
Aluminum wrap for leftovers 1 answer
Baking sheet 1 answer
Baking sheet covering 1 answer
Blunt-pointed rapier 1 answer
CROSS ground so as to baffle hounds (hunting) 1 answer
CROSS scent so as to baffle hounds (hunting) 1 answer
Canucks Tin ___ Phoenix 1 answer
Chocolate kiss wrap 1 answer
Comedic straight man 1 answer
Comic's sidekick 1 answer
Contrasting thing 1 answer
Counterpart, in drama 1 answer
Cover-up for leftovers 1 answer
Covering for Kisses 1 answer
Covering for a Kiss 1 answer
Covering for leftovers 1 answer
Duel-purpose tool 1 answer
Four-sided blade 1 answer
Frustrate, as an evil scheme 1 answer
Gold leaf, essentially 1 answer
Hat material for the paranoid 1 answer
Hershey's Kiss covering 1 answer
Impede, as a plot 1 answer
It can cover your lunch 1 answer
Kiss wrapping 1 answer
Leftover holder 1 answer
Light weapon in fencing 1 answer
Lining for a sheet-pan dinner 1 answer
Metal wrap 1 answer
Metallic food wrap 1 answer
Metallic paper 1 answer
Metallic substance used in refrigerating foods. 1 answer
Odie, to Garfield 1 answer
Prevent, as a plan 1 answer
Prevent, like an evil genius's plans 1 answer
Reynolds wrap 1 answer
Roast wrap 1 answer
SPOIL scent (of deer etc.) 1 answer
Shiny song off "Mandatory Fun"? 1 answer
Straight man in comedy 1 answer
Straight man, e.g. 1 answer
Straight man, for a comedian 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with FOIL (5)

Jellyband always made a special selection of him as a foil for political arguments, but throughout the neighbourhood, where his learning and notably his knowledge of the Scriptures was held in the most profound awe and respect.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
The boy brought into play wrestling tricks that he had learned at school, and many of these Akut learned to use and to foil.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Gold foil is the best for our purposes; coin, however, answers, in most cases, for the daguerreotype operator, as the alloy, being so slight is not noticed in the gilding process.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
You'll take my tale with a little salt, But it needs none, nevertheless, I was foil'd completely, fairly at fault, Dishearten'd, too, I confess.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
The stale heat of the long day in town, the dusty promiscuity of the suburban train were now but the requisite foil to an evening of scented breezes and tranquil talk.
The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995

Quotes with FOIL (3)

One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly …
Daniel C. Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil.
Lisa Logue Cursed Secrets
Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning. We lose elections and…
Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 194 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).