ruse
noun/ruːz/
/ruːz/
- a way of doing something or of getting something by cheating somebody synonym trick
- She tried to think of a ruse to get him out of the house.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clever
- elaborate
- ruse by somebody
Word Originlate Middle English (as a hunting term): from Old French, from ruser ‘use trickery’, earlier ‘drive back’, perhaps based on Latin rursus ‘backwards’.Definitions on the go
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