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FOIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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:

To force onto another

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

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