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  • foil :a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
    • the photographic film was wrapped in foil

  • foil :enhance by contrast
    • In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background

  • foil :anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
    • pretty girls like plain friends as foils

  • foil :hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
    • What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
    • foil your opponent

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