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  • 1faint — faint, feint Both words come from the same Old French root feindre ‘to feign’. Faint is used as an adjective meaning ‘indistinct, pale’ or ‘feeling dizzy’, as a noun meaning ‘a loss of consciousness’, and as a verb meaning ‘to lose consciousness’ …

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  • 2feint — faint, feint Both words come from the same Old French root feindre ‘to feign’. Faint is used as an adjective meaning ‘indistinct, pale’ or ‘feeling dizzy’, as a noun meaning ‘a loss of consciousness’, and as a verb meaning ‘to lose consciousness’ …

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  • 8feint — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a sham attack or blow etc. to divert attention or fool an opponent or enemy. 2 pretence. v.intr. make a feint. Etymology: F feinte, fem. past part. of feindre FEIGN 2. adj. esp. Printing = FAINT adj. 6 (feint lines). Etymology: ME …

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