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  • Feint, withdraw, skim the globe to another point, withdraw again...  (source)
    Feint = make a deceptive move -- as though attacking
  • He was itching to get back on his own Firebolt and try out the Wronski Feint...  (source)
    Feint = deceptive maneuver
  • I grab my bag and make for the door, but just as I do, he steps out in front of me with a boxer's feint, and for a moment I think he's going to stop me, put his hands on me again.  (source)
    feint = deceptive move -- as though attacking
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  • You and Safia were a feint, a deception.  (source)
    feint = a distracting or deceptive maneuver
  • When they were within ten paces of him, he flicked open his wrist-blades, feinted at them, and they scattered into cafes, brasseries, patisseries, and boulangeries, lunging for safety anywhere they could find it.  (source)
    feinted = pretended to attack
  • Marcus feints left with his scim, and when Helene counters, he grins.  (source)
    feints = makes a deceptive move -- as though attacking
  • The fencing, the feinting, frustrated me.  (source)
    feinting = deceptive maneuvers
  • Inexplicably, he hesitated—for a bit of showy footwork, a juke to the left, a feint back to the right.  (source)
    feint = make a deceptive move -- as though attacking
  • I landed behind him with a splash and feinted toward his head, as I'd done before.†  (source)
  • I drew your garrison away with feints and raids and secondary attacks.†  (source)
  • They jockey for position, feinting, dueling; the two gangs shift position, now and again temporarily obscuring the fighters.  (source)
    feinting = making deceptive motions (as when pretending to attack to try to get the opponent off balance)
  • A few brave men were strung before them to make a feint of resistance, and many there fell before the rest drew back and fled to either side.  (source)
    feint = deceptive maneuver
  • James feinted slightly to the side, and Edward shifted in response.†  (source)
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rare meaning

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His clothes were wet and clammy and there was a feint chill.  (source)
feint = non-standard spelling of faint (something barely perceptible)
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