Definitions for feints

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Spelling: [feynts]

IPA: /feɪnts/

Feints is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in feints (efinst).

Definitions for feints

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:
3. the impure spirit produced in the first and last stages of the distillation of whiskey.

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 feints

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

Examples for feints

Very good; then you must force him to it by feints, or by threatening to attack.

The taps F are for the purpose of collecting the first runnings, the pure alcohol and the last runnings or “feints.”

There were feints of attack in front and rushes from the rear, and there were rushes from all sides.

And the feints made by Lee and Jackson will be our attacks in force.

Such are the resources, the feints, the stratagems, the foibles of love!

He greeted his fellow-sufferer first with hisses and then with threats and feints of war.

The manner in which he feints, ducks, sidesteps and hooks is unimpeachable.

There are three kinds of ripostes: direct, with feints and after a pause.

There was more than mere skill in his feints and shrewd blows; more in it than a feather.

Conservative columnist Reihan Salam suggested that GOP-backed minimum wage discussions might be feints for appearances only.