Mary would feint innocence, pretending she had turned in her assignments when in actuality she hadn't completed them.
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Feint
//feɪnt//
Synonyms for "feint" (197 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
78 translations across 25 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- rrenë noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Armenian
2 entries- հնարք noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- խաբս տալ verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Bulgarian
2 entries- финт noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- финтирам verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Catalan
1 entries- finta noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 假象 noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- 疑陣 /疑阵 noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- 賣個破綻 /卖个破绽 verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Cornish
1 entries- fug verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Czech
4 entries- fingovaný útok noun ((boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part)
- finta noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- klamný pohyb noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- klamný pohyb noun ((boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part)
Dutch
1 entries- schijnbeweging noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Finnish
4 entries- harhautus adj (of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike)
- harhautus noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- harhautus noun ((boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part)
- harhautusliike noun ((boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part)
French
2 entries- feinte noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- feinter verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
German
2 entries- Finte noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- fintieren verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Greek
1 entries- αντιπερισπασμός noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Hungarian
4 entries- csel noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- elterelő hadművelet noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- hadicsel noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- színlelt támadás noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Irish
1 entries- céim bhréige noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Italian
1 entries- finta noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Japanese
1 entries- フェイント noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Macedonian
3 entries- фи́нта noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- и́змами verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
- финти́ра verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Māori
4 entries- whakahopo adj (of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike)
- ohiti noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- ohitu noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- tākiri noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
Portuguese
4 entries- drible noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- finta noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- lançar um ataque simulado verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
- simular verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Romanian
2 entries- fentă noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- fenta verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Russian
4 entries- притво́рство noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- финт noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- лука́вить verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
- слука́вить verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Spanish
4 entries- amago noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- finta noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- amagar verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
- fintar verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Swedish
2 entries- fint noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- finta verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Turkish
2 entries- feyk noun (movement made to confuse an opponent)
- feyk atmak verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Welsh
3 entries- ymosodiad ffug noun ((boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part)
- esgus ymosod 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)
- esgus ymosod verb (to make a feint or mock attack)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Mary made a feint to Tom's right, then struck a blow of her sword to his left arm.
Source: tatoeba (11831017)
In October, Friburg had been taken by a Feint of the Duke of Crequi, before the Duke of Lorrain cou'd come to relieve it; […]
Source: wiktionary
Nothing could be more uncertain than the intentions of the French marshal [André Masséna], and Lord Wellington [Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington] felt, that by an incautious movement, his army must be seriously committed—Massena's retreat might only be a feint to draw the allies from their position—while by turning Monte Junta, he might make a sudden rush on Torres Vedras.
Source: wiktionary
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