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Failed vs Foiled - What's the difference?

failed | foiled |

As verbs the difference between failed and foiled

is that failed is past tense of fail while foiled is past tense of foil.

failed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fail)

    • Derived terms

    * unfailed

    Anagrams

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    foiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foil)

    • FOIL

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A particular algorithm for multiplying two binomials.

    • External links

    * (projectlink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply the FOIL algorithm to.

    • Anagrams

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