Outwit

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  • transitive verb. To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The faculty of observation, or the knowledge gained by observation and experience: opposed to inwit.
  • To surpass in intelligence.
  • To surpass in plots or stratagems; defeat or frustrate by superior ingenuity; prove too clever for.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning.
  • transitive verb. To defeat or gain an advantage over by superior craft or cunning stratagems.
  • noun. The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. beat through cleverness and wit
    • Word Usage
    "Ethan Zohn, once a professional soccer player, proved he has what it takes to "outwit" and "outlast" when he won the reality T.V. show "Survivor: Africa.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    exceed  outdo  outgo  outmatch  outperform  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bamboozle  befool  beguile  betray  bluff  
    variant
    outwitted  outwitting  
    verb-form
    outwits  outwitted  outwitting  
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