RUSE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary A ruse was to cheat at the medical by sending a person who looked healthy, or by manipulating blood pressure From the Cambridge English Corpus A denial of the clock, of being professionally on-time or amateurishly late, is a disingenuous ruse
ruse noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . . Definition of ruse noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 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 The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words
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 Anyway, no man can escape the woman he considers too much rused for him: tear her down or run away toward her if he can't meet her head-and-hind on
ruse, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary What does the noun ruse mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun ruse , one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence