Foil and Shake

Foil

Foil verb - To prevent from achieving a goal.

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Shake and foil are semantically related. in circumvent topic. In some cases you can use "Shake" instead a verb "Foil".

Nearby Words: foiled, foiling

Shake verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Usage example: we shook our pursuers by cutting through the abandoned lot

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Foil and shake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foil" instead a verb "Shake".

Nearby Words: shaky, shaking, shaken, shakedown, shaker

good	good foil	good shake
better	better foil	better shake
perfect	perfect foil	perfect shake
obvious	obvious foil	obvious shake
Other adjectives: serious, main.

They spend the rest of the episode trying to shake the girl and foil her suicide attempts, while succeeding in their attempts, only to fail in increasingly bizarre ways.

Source: Driven To Suicide / Anime and Manga

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