Feint and Trap

Feint

Feint noun - Any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack).

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Trap and feint are semantically related In some cases you can use "Trap" instead a noun "Feint".

Nearby Words: feinted, feinting

Trap noun - A device or scheme for capturing another by surprise.

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Feint and trap are semantically related in snare topic. Sometimes you can use "Feint" instead a noun "Trap".

Nearby Words: trapped, trapping, trapper, trappy

actual	actual feint	actual trap
massive	massive feint	massive trap

In the last few months of World War II, Hitler led his inner circle to believe that all German operations were a massive defensive feint trap.

Source: Defensive Feint Trap
It helped that General Patton was supposedly in charge of the US forces heading for Calais — really an offensive feint trap.

Source: Defensive Feint Trap
Except it was a defensive feint trap, and Holmes's plan ultimately was a Heroic Sacrifice taking them both over the edge into the Reichenbach Falls as per the Sherlock Holmes mythos.

Source: Defensive Feint Trap

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