▸ 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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