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foiled
adjective as in disappointed
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adjective as in done for
adjective as in frustrated
adjective as in restricted
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adjective as in unsuccessful
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Example Sentences
Dozens of times, local police have found half-drilled holes and abandoned equipment, suggesting his holdup attempts were foiled.
A misconduct hearing for a Metropolitan Police firearms officer who fatally shot a man during a foiled prison break in 2015 has been discontinued.
New South Wales police last week said they had foiled an attempted murder by a so-called "kill team" and arrested three men involved.
Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders on Friday suspended campaigning for elections later this month, after learning that he had also been targeted in a foiled attack aimed at Belgium's Prime Minister Bert De Wever.
The case rests on a planned raid on the Romanian capital Bucharest on 8 December, which police foiled.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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