Definitions for feint

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Spelling: [feynt]

IPA: /feɪnt/

Feint is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in feint (efint).

Definitions for feint

noun

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:
2. a feigned or assumed appearance:

plural noun

1. faints.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a feint at; deceive with a feint.
2. to make a false show of; simulate.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a feint.

Origin of feint

1275-1325; Middle English Old French feinte, noun use of feminine of feint pretended, past participle of feindre to feign

Examples for feint

Salem held one under his nose, in spite of a feint to interrupt them by the soldiers.

Not bad, that feint––but dangerous, because of the possibility of misjudging the attack.

Netanyahu had no choice but to at least feint in this direction.

She made a feint of accepting the herb, and then pointed to him and to the road.

That which should have been the real attack shall be no more than a feint.

Catlike though it was, the feint did not take the big fellow unprepared.

He made a feint, as if he were about to strike his pike between its eyes.

"Forgive me if I have stayed too long," she said, making a feint of opening the door.

As I was falling it came over me that the attack was only a feint to keep us busy.

And yet it was ministered to, in a dull and abortive manner, by all who made this feint.