Ruse meaning: an action intended to deceive someone; a trick.
Can I use rusing?
Example: I was rusing back there so you could make a clean getaway.
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Ruse is a noun, not a verb: a trick, stratagem, or artifice: He used a ruse to get past the sentry.thefreedictionary.com/Ruse– user66974Commented Mar 9, 2015 at 13:52
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No. The idiomatic way would be to say
I was playing a ruse
Or better: I was causing a diversion
Alternative: I created a smokescreen back there
answered Mar 9, 2015 at 13:48
beguile: verb Charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.
dupe: verb Deceive; trick.
Source: Oxford Living Dictionaries: English.
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Though "Beguiling" is an adjective form of beguile, it can also be used as a verb. For example:-(1) "It's music that bypasses the brain entirely, beguiling the soul with its ceaselessly inventive mercurial forms conjured literally out of the air."(2) Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. look for more here:sentence.yourdictionary.com/beguiling Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 9:56
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I know it can be used but it does not work in OP's example. Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 9:58
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If "beguiling " sounds awkward , which I'm not sure that it does, we could use "bluff" as another word. Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 10:12