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1. • • a trick intended to deceive someone: It was just a ruse to distract her while his partner took the money. Synonym artifice formal
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   What does the word 'ruse' mean?

   • The word 'ruse' means an act used to deceive or trick someone. Some common synonyms of ruse are artifice, feint, maneuver, stratagem, trick, and wile. For example, his act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him.

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   What is a synonym for 'ruse'?

   • Synonyms for ruse include: trick, deception, ploy, hoax, device, manoeuvre, dodge, sham, artifice, blind, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, imposture, artifice, and deception. What are synonyms for ruse?

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   When would you use a ruse?

   • 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."

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   How does a ruse work?

   • When the government caught on to the ruse, it stopped the bounties and the farmers freed the cobras. It uses some ruse, such as the recipient's account is about to be suspended, to entice the recipient to click a link that is included. It's hard to imagine that most people are capable of such an elaborate ruse.

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   What is the difference between Ruse and stratagem?

   • trick, ruse, stratagem, maneuver, artifice, wile, feint mean an indirect means to gain an end. trick may imply deception, roguishness, illusion, and either an evil or harmless end. ruse stresses an attempt to mislead by a false impression. stratagem implies a ruse used to entrap, outwit, circumvent, or surprise an opponent or enemy.

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   What is the difference between a ruse and a trick?

   • The words trick and ruse can be used in similar contexts. However, trick may imply deception, roguishness, illusion, and can have either an evil or harmless end. When is 'wile' a more appropriate choice than ruse?

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   The meaning of RUSE is a wily subterfuge. How to use ruse in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ruse.

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   Some common synonyms of ruse are artifice, feint, maneuver, stratagem, trick, and wile. While all these words mean "an indirect means to gain an end," ruse stresses an attempt to mislead by a false impression.

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   ruse. noun. These are words and phrases related to ruse. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of ruse. The false telephone call was just a ruse to get me out of the way.

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   ruse | American Dictionary. noun [ C ] us / ruz / Add to word list. a trick intended to deceive someone: You didn’t fall for my ruse. (Definition of ruse from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of ruse.

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   ruse. /ruz/ IPA guide. Other forms: ruses. Movie bank robbers always seem to pull some kind of ruse, a deceptive trick or tactic like hiding the money underneath the bank while they drive off in the getaway car to avoid capture by the police.

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   Find 35 different ways to say RUSE, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.

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   RUSE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of ruse in English. ruse. noun [ C ] us / ruːz / uk / ruːz / Add to word list. 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.