Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to defoil
Participle: defoiled
Gerund: defoiling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | defoil |
| you | defoil |
| he;she;it | defoils |
| we | defoil |
| you | defoil |
| they | defoil |
Perfect
| I | have defoiled |
| you | have defoiled |
| he;she;it | has defoiled |
| we | have defoiled |
| you | have defoiled |
| they | have defoiled |
Past
| I | defoiled |
| you | defoiled |
| he;she;it | defoiled |
| we | defoiled |
| you | defoiled |
| they | defoiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had defoiled |
| you | had defoiled |
| he;she;it | had defoiled |
| we | had defoiled |
| you | had defoiled |
| they | had defoiled |
Future
| I | will defoil |
| you | will defoil |
| he;she;it | will defoil |
| we | will defoil |
| you | will defoil |
| they | will defoil |
Future Perfect
| I | will have defoiled |
| you | will have defoiled |
| he;she;it | will have defoiled |
| we | will have defoiled |
| you | will have defoiled |
| they | will have defoiled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | defoil |
| you | defoil |
| he;she;it | defoil |
| we | defoil |
| you | defoil |
| they | defoil |
Perfect
| I | have defoiled |
| you | have defoiled |
| he;she;it | have defoiled |
| we | have defoiled |
| you | have defoiled |
| they | have defoiled |
Imperfect
| I | defoiled |
| you | defoiled |
| he;she;it | defoiled |
| we | defoiled |
| you | defoiled |
| they | defoiled |
Pluperfect
| I | had defoiled |
| you | had defoiled |
| he;she;it | had defoiled |
| we | had defoiled |
| you | had defoiled |
| they | had defoiled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would defoil |
| you | would defoil |
| he;she;it | would defoil |
| we | would defoil |
| you | would defoil |
| they | would defoil |
Perfect
| I | would have defoiled |
| you | would have defoiled |
| he;she;it | would have defoiled |
| we | would have defoiled |
| you | would have defoiled |
| they | would have defoiled |
Imperative
| you | defoil |
| we | Let's defoil |
| you | defoil |
Verbs conjugated like 'defoil'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'defoil'
defail,
defoul,
deoil,
befool,
befoul,
bemoil,
besoil,
betoil,
defib,
defile,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English defoil (“to defile”), from Old French defouler. See: Middle English '
defoil'.
Sample Sentences
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A murder'd body huge beside him stood, Of head and right hand both but lately spoiled, His left hand bore the head, whose visage good Both pale and wan with dust and gore defoiled, Yet spake, though dead, with whose sad words the blood Forth at his lips in huge abundance boiled:— Fly Argillan, from this false camp fly far, Whose guide a traitor, captains murderers are. [1853, Torquato Tasso, Edward Fairfaix, Leigh Hunt, Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or: The Recovery of Jerusalem, page 252:]
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Naught, Answered his hot desires : within the air The war-horse neighed, he heard the tourney-spears Ring in attaint, with moans from one defoiled. [1890, Frank Carr, Of Palomide: Famous Knight of King Arthur's Round Table, page 81:]
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Then Sir Thomas came thither with his company and mounted up into the gate, and there found the said lords with twenty-five knights with them, who yielded them to Sir Thomas; and he took them for his prisoners and left company to keep them, and then mounted again on his horse and rode into the streets, and saved many lives of ladies, damosels, and cloisterers from defoiling,— for the soldiers were without mercy. [1895, Jean Froissart, translated by John Bourchier, edited by George Campbell Macaulay, The Chronicles of Froissart, page 97:]
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As the so-called experts of life continue to defoil the natural, living world, they also defoil the minds and tongues of its human inhabitants. [1980, Larry Tifft, Dennis Sullivan, The Struggle to Be Human: Crime, Criminology, and Anarchism, page 21:]