Synonyms of the word

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

attention

• n. (uncountable) Mental focus.
• n. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially…
• n. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
• interj. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

baffle

• v. (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
• v. (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
• v. To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
• v. (now rare) To foil; to thwart.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle in vain.
• n. A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is…
• n. An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
• n. (US, dialect, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

bilk

• n. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
• n. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.
• v. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
• v. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).

contrast

• n. (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more…
• n. (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
• n. (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.
• v. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
• v. (intransitive) To form a contrast.

counterpoint

• n. (music) a melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains…
• n. any similar contrasting element in a work of art.
• n. An opposite point.
• v. (transitive) to compose or arrange such music.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

cross

• n. A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least…
• n. (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese…
• n. A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute…
• n. (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
• n. (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
• n. (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a…
• n. (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
• n. The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other.
• n. (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
• n. (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
• n. (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
• n. (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
• n. A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place…
• n. A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross).
• n. (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross…
• n. (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
• n. A line drawn across or through another line.
• n. (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• n. A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
• n. (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
• adj. Transverse; lying across the main direction.
• adj. (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
• adj. (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
• adj. Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
• adj. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
• prep. (archaic) across.
• prep. cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• v. To make or form a cross.
• v. To move relatively.
• v. (social) To oppose.
• v. (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
• v. To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited…

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

enhancer

• n. Something that enhances.
• n. (genetics) A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes.

forbid

• v. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
• v. (transitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
• v. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.

foreclose

• v. (transitive) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments;…
• v. (transitive) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged…
• v. (transitive) To prevent from doing something.
• v. (transitive) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

forestall

• v. (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to…
• v. (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
• v. (archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly…
• v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
• v. To deprive (with of).
• v. (Britain, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the…
• n. (obsolete or historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
• n. Something situated or placed in front.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

hydrofoil

• n. (nautical) A wing attached to the hull of a ship that raises it out of the water when travelling at speed…
• n. (nautical) A vessel equipped with such a device.

icon

• n. An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
• n. (religion) A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
• n. A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
• n. A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs…
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic…
• n. Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.

ikon

• n. Alternative form of icon (religious image).

image

• n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
• n. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
• n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image,…
• n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to…
• n. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
• n. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
• n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
• v. (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
• v. (transitive) To create an image of.
• v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

picture

• n. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface,…
• n. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
• n. A painting.
• n. A photograph.
• n. (informal) A motion picture.
• n. (dated, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
• n. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
• n. An attractive sight.
• n. The art of painting; representation by painting.
• n. A figure; a model.
• n. Situation.
• v. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
• v. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
• v. (transitive) To depict.

preclude

• v. (transitive) Remove the possibility of; rule out; prevent or exclude; to make impossible.

prevent

• v. (transitive) To stop; to keep from.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To take preventative measures.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To come before; to precede.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To outdo, surpass.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

scotch

• n. A surface cut or abrasion.
• n. A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
• n. A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
• v. (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
• v. (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
• v. (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
• v. (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
• v. (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To clothe or cover up.
• adj. Of Scottish origin.
• n. Whisky of Scottish origin.
• n. Scotch tape.
• v. (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) to rape.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

thwart

• v. (transitive) To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
• v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
• n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel…
• n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
• adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
• adj. (figuratively) Perverse; crossgrained.
• adv. Obliquely; transversely; athwart.

transparency

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being transparent; transparence.
• n. (uncountable) Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
• n. (countable, photography) A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining…
• n. (countable) A transparent object.
• n. (signal processing) Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from…