Definitions for Ruse

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Spelling: [rooz]
IPA: /ruz/

Ruse is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Ruse (ersu).

Definitions for Ruse

noun

  1. a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
  2. a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.

Origin of Ruse

1375-1425; late Middle English (noun use of obsolete rusen to detour) Middle French, derivative of ruser to retreat. See rush1

Examples for Ruse

The ruse worked and her attendance at the party went unreported.

Mansoor feared that it was a ruse, and that the house was being watched, back and front.

But the Beyoncé stage pictures are a ruse: they have an air of intimacy while telling us nothing of substance at all.

With luck, some of the thousands of men who fell for this ruse will soon be in jail.

Her ruse of spoliation within the law was evidence of her shrewdness, nothing more.

But it was a ruse; Northup was kidnapped, flogged, and sold for $1,000 at a slave market in New Orleans.

The ruse succeeded to the extent of compelling the Parisian to retreat.

This ruse of the Indians was discovered on Friday, the 11th.

Whatever had been done at the lesser gate had been done as a ruse, I did not doubt.

“Openly gay ambassadors are now placed in largely religious countries,” ruse complained.

Word Value for Ruse
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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