feint
11feint — feint, einte (fin, fin t ) part. passé de feindre. 1° Qui se fait, se produit pour tromper. Sa foi est feinte. • Le fer étincelant, avec art détourné, Par de feints mouvements trompe l oeil étonné, VOLT. Henr. X.. 2° Qui n est pas véritable …
12feint — [fānt] n. [Fr feint < pp. of feindre: see FEIGN] 1. a false show; sham 2. a pretended blow or attack intended to take the opponent off his guard, as in boxing or warfare vi., vt. to deliver (such a blow or attack) …
13feint — I noun ambush, artifice, camouflage, chicanery, counterfeit, deception, device, disguise, dodge, dupery, duplicity, fakery, false appearance, false pretense, gimmick, illusion, legerdemain, maneuver, mask, masquerade, pass, ploy, prestidigitation …
14feint — n artifice, wile, ruse, gambit, ploy, stratagem, maneuver, *trick Analogous words: *pretense, pretension, make believe: hoaxing or hoax, hoodwinking, befooling (see corresponding verbs at DUPE): resort, expedient, shift (see RESOURCE) …
15feint — [n] pretense artifice, bait, blind, bluff, cheat, deceit, distraction, dodge, duck, expedient, fake, gambit, hoax, hoodwinking*, imposture, make believe, maneuver, mock attack, play, ploy, pretension, pretext, ruse, sham*, shift, snare, stall,… …
16feint — /faynt/, n. 1. a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer. 2. a feigned or assumed… …
17feint — feint1 [ feınt ] noun count a movement that you pretend to make, especially to trick an opponent in a sport or fight feint feint 2 [ feınt ] verb intransitive or transitive to pretend to make a movement, especially to trick an opponent in a sport …
18feint — The noun feint [17] and the adjective feint [19] are essentially different words, but they have a common ultimate origin. Feint ‘misleading mock attack’ was borrowed from French feinte, a noun use of the feminine form of the past participle of… …
19feint — I UK [feɪnt] / US noun [countable] Word forms feint : singular feint plural feints a movement that you pretend to make, especially to trick an opponent in a sport or fight II UK [feɪnt] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms feint :… …
20feint — The noun feint [17] and the adjective feint [19] are essentially different words, but they have a common ultimate origin. Feint ‘misleading mock attack’ was borrowed from French feinte, a noun use of the feminine form of the past participle of… …
