foxed

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of fox. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.

   The hard riddle foxed the whole class for almost an hour.

   She was completely foxed by the strange map and its missing labels.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Marked with small yellow-brown spots from age, the way old book pages often are.

   Like the brown spots that show up on a banana as it gets old.

   The old book's pages were foxed and yellow at the edges.

   She found a foxed map tucked inside the bottom drawer.

   Similarspotted, stained, discolored, mottled, yellowed

   Oppositeclean, pristine, unblemished

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