See feint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Feint him—use your legs! draw him about! he'll lose his wind then in no time, and you can go into him.",
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"ref": "1893–1897 (date written), Robert Louis Stevenson, “Swanston Cottage”, in St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1897, →OCLC, page 67:",
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"ref": "1984, Len Levinson, chapter 3, in Meat Grinder Hill (The Rat Bastards; 4), [San Francisco, Calif.]: AudioGO, published 2013, →ISBN:",
"text": "Gomez feinted with his knife and the other man darted backward. He feinted again and the man moved to the side. The man feinted but Gomez didn't budge; he was anxious to get it on.",
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"sense": "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",
"word": "tehdä harhautusliike"
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"sense": "to direct a feint or mock attack against (someone or something)",
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "խաբս տալ"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "fintiram",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "финтирам"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "賣個破綻"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mài ge pòzhàn",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "卖个破绽"
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"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
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"word": "fug"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"tags": [
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"word": "naznačit pohyb"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "klamat tělem"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "harhauttaa"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "feinter"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "fintieren"
},
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fintíra",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "финти́ра"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "ízmami",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "и́змами"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "hoka"
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "tautātete"
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"code": "mi",
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"note": "with a weapon",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "whakahopo"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "whakarehu"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "whakatēteka"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "lançar um ataque simulado"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "fintar"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "fintear"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
"word": "finta"
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"sense": "to make a feint or mock attack",
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"ref": "1855, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Contains Two or Three Acts of a Little Comedy”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 90:",
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