Ease and Foil

Ease

Ease verb - To free from obstruction or difficulty.

Foil is an antonym for ease.

Nearby Words: easy, eased, easing, easeful, easiness

Foil

Foil verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.
Usage example: in popular fiction the hero will always foil the villain's plans

Ease is an antonym for foil.

Nearby Words: foiled, foiling

How words are described

natural natural ease natural foil
complete complete ease complete foil
great great ease great foil
cold cold ease cold foil
Other adjectives: pragmatic, greater, modern.

Common collocations

part ease part foil part
death ease death foil death
way ease way foil way
schemes ease schemes foil schemes

Both words in one sentence

  • Manga / Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto However, no matter what tricks the other boys try to play on him, Sakamoto always manages to foil them with ease, moving through his high school life with confidence and class like no other.Haven't you heard?
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