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Vocabulary
FAINT OR FEINT?
Key
Faint means 'to become unconscious for a short
time'.
Feint means 'to pretend to hit somebody, to make a movement to distract the adversary, to make a deceptive action'.
Feint means 'to pretend to hit somebody, to make a movement to distract the adversary, to make a deceptive action'.
- faint
When she saw the mouse under the table, she fainted.
Many people fainted in the blazing heat.
There was so much smoke that one firefighter fainted.
- feint
The boxer feinted and the crowd was surprised.
The national army feinted to distract the enemy from the real attack.
The midfielder feinted to shoot.