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Ru·se

 (ro͝o′sā)
A city of northeast Bulgaria on the Danube River south of Bucharest, Romania. Founded as a Roman fortress, it is today a major port and industrial center.

ruse

 (ro͞oz, ro͞os)
n.
A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge. See Synonyms at wile.
[Middle English, detour, dodging, from Old French, from ruser, to drive back; see rush1.]
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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

(ˈruːseɪ)
n
(Placename) a city in NE Bulgaria, on the River Danube: the chief river port and one of the largest industrial centres in Bulgaria. Pop: 172 000 (2005 est)
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ruse

(ruz)

n.
a trick, stratagem, or artifice: He used a ruse to get past the sentry.
[1375–1425; late Middle English: roundabout course < Middle French, derivative of ruser to retreat. See rush1]
syn: See trick.

Ru•se

(ˈru seɪ)

n.
a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube. 172,782.
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ruse

In military deception, a trick of war designed to deceive the adversary, usually involving the deliberate exposure of false information to the adversary's intelligence collection system.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.ruse - a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)ruse - a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
artifice
tactical maneuver, tactical manoeuvre, maneuver, manoeuvre - a move made to gain a tactical end
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ruse

noun trick, deception, ploy, hoax, device, manoeuvre, dodge, sham, artifice, blind, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, imposture This was a ruse to divide them.
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ruse

noun
An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end:
artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile.
Informal: shenanigan, take-in.
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Translations
حيلَه، خِدْعَه
lestúskočnostúskok
kneb
bragî, klækur
gudrībaviltīgs plāns

ruse

[ruːz] N → ardid m, treta f, estratagema f
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ruse

[ˈruːz] n → ruse f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

ruse

n → List f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ruse

[ruːz] n (frm) → stratagemma m, astuzia
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ruse

(ruːz) noun
a clever trick or plan.
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It was very fetching to make the girl propose in the course of being reunited, and Martin discovered, bit by bit, other decidedly piquant and fetching ruses. But marriage bells at the end was the one thing he could take no liberties with; though the heavens rolled up as a scroll and the stars fell, the wedding bells must go on ringing just the same.
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Felicite would invariably thwart their ruses and they held her in great respect.
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The Sagoths were now not over two hundred and fifty yards behind us, and I saw that it was hopeless for us to expect to escape other than by a ruse. There was a bare chance of saving Ghak and Perry, and as I reached the branching of the canyon I took the chance.
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As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schonbrunn, sixteen miles from Hollabrunn) received Murat's dispatch with the proposal of a truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following letter to Murat:
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That I spake of sacrifices and honey-sacrifices, it was merely a ruse in talking and verily, a useful folly!
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Our only hope lies in traveling northward as rapidly as we may, of coming to the camp of the raiders before the knowledge of Achmet Zek's death reaches those who were left there, and of obtaining, through some ruse, an escort toward the north.
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- very likely a ruse to get rid of guests who had certainly been behaving as though the Lodge was their permanent home.
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