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outsmart
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit , overreach , outfox , beat , circumvent ] defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops putmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new superviser knows ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to beat in a competition of wit
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to prove too clever for," 1926, from out + smart (adj.). Related: Outsmarted ; outsmarting .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The lizard can outsmart predators by leaving its tail behind to confuse them. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And Royle is hoping to outsmart the old master, just like he did last season. ▪ From a human relations point of view, ...
Usage examples of outsmart.
We believe our Bush girls can outdrink and outsmart any of these Ruskies.
Bush Twins We believe our Bush girls can outdrink and outsmart any of these Ruskies.
I passed every damn test they threw at me, I outfought, outshot, and outsmarted all the men at my level.
He planned to outsmart Moncada by leaving for America from the Atlantic port of La Coruna, as no one in his right mind would travel away from Barcelona to take a ship.
That an illiterate Irishwoman with dirt beneath her nails had outsmarted him.
Logical, solid, respectable, smart, he could outtalk her, outsmart her, and leave her laughing while he did it.
Silver Fox the craftiest criminal lawyer in this part of the country the man who can get any crook or murderer off by outsmarting a dumb prosecuting attorney, a sleepy judge and a stupid jury!
He had been outmaneuvered, outwitted, and outsmarted by the Empress-a cephalid.
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.
One might think they are outsmarting it, but they will be tripped up as the test progresses.
Henrys himself had not anticipated the weapon, so he hadn't outsmarted Brf.
Eeeee, Little Marvelous Mouth, he chortled, the yang outsmarted the yin after all!