feint

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /feɪnt/
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• homophone: faint
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• rhymes with -eɪnt
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• CMU ARPABET: F EY1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French feint, the past participle of feindre (“to fake, feign”): see etymology 1.

A variant of faint (“barely perceptible; not bright, loud, or sharp”).

The noun is borrowed from French feinte (“dummy, feint”), from feindre (“to fake, feign”), from Old French feindre, faindre, from Latin fingere, the present active infinitive of fingō (“to alter the truth to deceive, dissemble, feign, pretend; to fashion, form, shape”). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * English feign, fiction, figment * Italian finta * Occitan fencha, fenha * Old Spanish finta (modern Spanish finta (“dummy, feint”))

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: harhautus- — of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike
• Māori: whakahopo — of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike
• Albanian: rrenë — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Armenian: հնարք (hnarkʻ) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Bulgarian: финт (fint) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Catalan: finta — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Chinese Mandarin: 假象 (jiǎxiàng) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Chinese Mandarin: 疑陣 /疑阵 — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Czech: finta — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Czech: klamný pohyb — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Dutch: schijnbeweging — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Finnish: harhautus — movement made to confuse an opponent
• French: feinte — movement made to confuse an opponent
• German: Finte — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Greek: αντιπερισπασμός (antiperispasmós) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Hungarian: csel — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Hungarian: elterelő hadművelet — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Hungarian: hadicsel — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Hungarian: színlelt támadás — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Irish: céim bhréige — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Italian: finta — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Japanese: フェイント (feinto) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Macedonian: фи́нта (fínta) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Māori: ohiti — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Māori: ohitu — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Māori: tākiri — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Māori: whakarehu — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Māori: whakahopo — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Portuguese: finta — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Portuguese: drible — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Romanian: fentă — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Russian: финт (fint) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Russian: притво́рство (pritvórstvo) — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Spanish: finta — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Spanish: amago — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Swedish: fint — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Turkish: feyk — movement made to confuse an opponent
• Czech: klamný pohyb — (boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part
• Czech: fingovaný útok — (boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part
• Finnish: valehyökkäys — (boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part
• Finnish: harhautus — (boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part
• Welsh: ymosodiad ffug — (boxing, fencing) offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part
• Finnish: tehdä harhautusliike — 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
• Māori: tautātete — 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
• Māori: whakahopo — 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
• Māori: hoka — 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
• Welsh: esgus ymosod — 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
• Finnish: tehdä valehyökkäys — to direct a feint or mock attack against (someone or something)
• Māori: tautātete — to direct a feint or mock attack against (someone or something)
• Māori: hoka — to direct a feint or mock attack against (someone or something)
• Armenian: խաբս տալ (xabs tal) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Bulgarian: финтирам (fintiram) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Chinese Mandarin: 賣個破綻 /卖个破绽 (mài ge pòzhàn) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Cornish: fug — to make a feint or mock attack
• Czech: naznačit pohyb — to make a feint or mock attack
• Czech: klamat tělem — to make a feint or mock attack
• Finnish: harhauttaa — to make a feint or mock attack
• French: feinter — to make a feint or mock attack
• German: fintieren — to make a feint or mock attack
• Macedonian: финти́ра (fintíra) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Macedonian: и́змами (ízmami) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Māori: hoka — to make a feint or mock attack
• Māori: tautātete — to make a feint or mock attack
• Māori: whakahopo — to make a feint or mock attack
• Māori: whakarehu — to make a feint or mock attack
• Māori: whakatēteka — to make a feint or mock attack
• Portuguese: lançar um ataque simulado — to make a feint or mock attack
• Portuguese: simular — to make a feint or mock attack
• Romanian: fenta — to make a feint or mock attack
• Russian: финти́ть (fintítʹ) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Russian: лука́вить (lukávitʹ) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Russian: слука́вить (slukávitʹ) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Russian: хитри́ть (xitrítʹ) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Russian: схитри́ть (sxitrítʹ) — to make a feint or mock attack
• Spanish: amagar — to make a feint or mock attack
• Spanish: fintar — to make a feint or mock attack
• Spanish: fintear — to make a feint or mock attack
• Swedish: finta — to make a feint or mock attack
• Turkish: feyk atmak — to make a feint or mock attack
• Welsh: esgus ymosod — to make a feint or mock attack