Definitions from Wiktionary (feint)

▸ 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.
▸ Also see feint



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