What is the difference between Faint and Feint?
What is the difference between Faint and Feint? :
Faint : (adjective)
( 1 ) Indistinct
That can not be clearly perceived by sense
Not intense in colour or sound or smell
The sounds of music grew fainter in the distance.
She called for help in a faint voice.
( 2 ) Vague
There is a faint hope that she may be cured.
( 3 ) Lacking strength
His breathing became faint.
( 4 ) Giddy
He feels faint.
( 5 ) Weak
He made a faint attempt to complete the work.
That was a faint show of resistance.
Faint : (verb)
( 1 ) Lose consciousness
She fainted from hunger.
Faint : (noun)
( 1 ) Act of fading
State of fading
He fell to the ground in a dead faint.
Feint : (noun)
( 1 ) Pretended attack to distract an opponent’s attention from the main attack
Feint technique is popular in boxing.
( 2 ) Pretence
He made a feint of doing the work.
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