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FOIST
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they foist
... he / she / it foists
Past simple: foisted
-ing form: foisting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insert surreptitiously or without warrant
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "foist" is one way to...):
enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
He foisted his work on me
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "foist" is one way to...):
bring down; impose; inflict; visit (impose something unpleasant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something on somebody