Beat
Beat verb - To strike repeatedly.
Foiled
Foiled adjective - Disappointingly unsuccessful.
Beat and foiled are semantically related in circumvent topic. Sometimes you can use "Beat" instead a verb "Foiled".
Both words in one sentence
- Thus Italian courts have an enormous backlog for things like a woman suing her daughter in law for not following the family (of the mother in law) recipe for a particular dish, or a stupid crook getting sued for attempting a bank robbery by the same people who foiled and beat him up.
Source: Frivolous Lawsuit - They're mostly foiled because they never expected the castle's furniture to come alive and beat them up.
Source: Outside-Context Problem -
He later tries to sue Ron for 22 million dollars... only to be foiled when April and Tom prove able to beat him at his own game.
Source: Series / Parks and Recreation
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Foiled and Beat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/foiled
Beat & Foiled. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/foiled>.
Foiled or Beat. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/beat/foiled.
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