Usually means: Deceptive movement to mislead opponent.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. feint: Merriam-Webster
  2. feint, feint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. feint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. feint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. feint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Feint, feint: Wordnik
  7. feint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. feint: Wiktionary
  9. feint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. feint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. feint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Feint, feint: Dictionary.com
  13. feint (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. feint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Feint (DJ), Feint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Feint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. feint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. feint: Rhymezone
  19. feint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. feint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. feint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. feint: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. feint: FreeDictionary.org
  24. feint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. feint: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. feint: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. feint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  3. Feint: Sports Definitions

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (often military) A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
noun:  (boxing, fencing) A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
noun:  (figuratively) Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
verb:  (transitive, boxing, fencing)
verb:  To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
verb:  (rare) To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, boxing, fencing, also often military) To make a feint or mock attack.
adjective:  (boxing, fencing, also often military) Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
adjective:  (obsolete) Feigned, counterfeit, fake.
adjective:  Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.

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