Averted and Foiled

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Foiled and averted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Foiled" instead a verb "Averted".

Nearby Words: averting, avertable

Foiled adjective - Disappointingly unsuccessful.

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Averted and foiled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Averted" instead a verb "Foiled".

Nearby Words: foil, foiling

While this trope was mostly averted in actual warfare, it was practically enforced in private duels and in fencing practice with foiled rapiers or smallswords from roughly the 16th-18th centuries.

Source: Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Averted in the 100th episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, (in a Scooby-Doo parody, no less) when the number 100's dubious plan is foiled.

Source: You Meddling Kids
Never Recycle Your Schemes: Averted, as his plans are to turn humans into a Dalek faction, a plot that's previously been foiled by the Doctor's Sixth and Eighth incarnation.

Source: Characters / LEGO Dimensions

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