Outwit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.
  • v. Archaic To surpass in intelligence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning.
  • v. To defeat or gain an advantage over by superior craft or cunning stratagems.
  • n. The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To surpass in intelligence.
  • To surpass in plots or stratagems; defeat or frustrate by superior ingenuity; prove too clever for.
  • n. The faculty of observation, or the knowledge gained by observation and experience: opposed to inwit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. beat through cleverness and wit
  • Verb Form
    outwits    outwitted    outwitting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    surpass    outmatch    outstrip    outgo    outdo    exceed    outperform    surmount   
    Variant
    outwitted    outwitting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    outfox    outsmart    outguess