Got the better of

Usage examples of outsmarted.

He got lucky, but he had to perceive that he had outsmarted the police.

They were all college kids and I never had anything in my life and I outsmarted them.

So this was the famous Artur Blord, the man whose courage and audacity was a byword, the great operator who always outsmarted his enemies, the financial and industrial wizard who never failed to deliver the goods.

It meant that the Diggers had outsmarted them: the beasts were clever.