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    ruse
    [ro͞oz]
    noun
    ruse (noun) · ruses (plural noun)
    Origin
    late Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’.
    Ruse
    [ˈro͞osā]
    definition
    1. an industrial city and the principal port of Bulgaria, on the Danube River; population 156,959 (2008).
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    A ruse is an action or plan which is intended to deceive someone. It is now clear that this was a ruse to divide them. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collins! Collins! Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
    Get a quick, free translation! RUSE definition: 1. a trick intended to deceive someone: 2. a trick intended to deceive someone: 3. a trick…. Learn more.
    You'd use a ruse if you were up to something sneaky and were trying to get away with it without being discovered. The wife planning a surprise birthday party for her husband could send him out to the supermarket as a ruse, a trick so she could sneak one hundred of his closest friends into the house without him noticing. "Ruse."
    Another ruse to keep her mind engaged was to trace out our course with a stick on a patch of bare earth. It was but a ruse to hold his attention while savages up the slope and behind fallen timber drew a bead on him. Ruse definition: a trick, stratagem, or artifice.. See examples of RUSE used in a sentence.
  3. Act that is used to fool someone
    A ruse is an act that is used to fool someone12, often by using deception, trickery, or cleverness.
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    A ruse was to cheat at the medical by sending a person who looked healthy, or by manipulating blood pressure. A denial of the clock, of being professionally on-time or amateurishly late, is a disingenuous ruse .

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    an act that is used to fool someone His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him. How is the word ruse different from other nouns like it? Some common synonyms of ruse are artifice, feint, maneuver, stratagem, trick, and wile.

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    WEB4 days ago · A ruse is an action or plan which is intended to deceive someone. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, word origin, and examples of ruse from Collins English Dictionary.