RUSE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster 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 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary ruse (third-person singular simple present ruses, present participle rusing, simple past and past participle rused) (intransitive) To deceive or trick using a ruse quotations
Ruse - definition of ruse by The Free Dictionary ruse (ruːz) n an action intended to mislead, deceive, or trick; stratagem [C15: from Old French: trick, esp to evade capture, from ruser to retreat, from Latin recūsāre to refuse]
Ruse - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com 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