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- DictionaryRuse/ˈruːseɪ/
- 1. an industrial city and the principal port of Bulgaria, on the River Danube; population 156,959 (2008). Turkish during the Middle Ages, it was captured by Russia in 1877 and ceded to Bulgaria.
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The meaning of RUSE is a wily subterfuge. How to use ruse in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ruse.
a trick intended to deceive someone: It was just a ruse to distract her while his partner took the money. Synonym. artifice formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. bilk. blackmail. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. funny business. game-fixing. grifter. gull. gyp. prankishly.
Ruse definition: a trick, stratagem, or artifice.. See examples of RUSE used in a sentence.
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.
a trick intended to deceive someone: It was just a ruse to distract her while his partner took the money. Synonym. artifice formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. bilk. blackmail. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. funny business. game-fixing. grifter. gull. prankishly. prankster.
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. American English : ruse / ˈrus, ˈruz /
Definition of ruse noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
