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foiled

adjective as in defeated

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Buddy’s plan gets foiled when Odd, confronted with his crime, quietly admits it, returns the loot, and leaves the house.

However, Ukraine's SBU security service had been watching and foiled the attack.

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Penelope seized the opportunity to ask, “As I said, it is the man called Quinzy who foiled your plans, not us. Will you tell me how you came to know him to begin with?”

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Russia said Tuesday it had foiled an Anglo-Ukrainian plot to hijack a military jet carrying a hypersonic missile which they planned to take to Romania in a "large-scale provocation".

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He struck the outside of the post in the opening stages and was later foiled one-on-one by Leno when should have doubled the lead.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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