The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outmaneuver \Out`ma*neu"ver\, Outmanoeuvre \Out`ma*n[oe]u"vre\, v. t. To surpass, or get an advantage of, in maneuvering; to outwit or frustrate by clever stratagems; to outgeneral.
Wiktionary
vb. (context US English) To perform movements more adroitly or successfully.
WordNet
v. defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops putmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new superviser knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations" [syn: outmanoeuvre, outsmart]
Usage examples of "outmaneuver".
If Hamilton and his admirers in the cabinet had outmaneuvered Adams in the contest over command of the army, Adams had now cut the ground out from under Hamilton.
And there were no reports of his death, so he must have managed to outmaneuver Alima somehow.
I managed to outthink, outhustle, outmaneuver, and otherwise outperform the other candidates and come away on top.
Hannibal is outnumbered, undersupplied, outmaneuvered, still he wins battle after battle.
Hamilton and his admirers in the cabinet had outmaneuvered Adams in the contest over command of the army, Adams had now cut the ground out from under Hamilton.
Well, maybe the Kid let himself be outmaneuvered and maybe he didn ever block a basket-shot efficiently, but how do you account for getting the ball into the basket?
Even so, they found themselves outmaneuvered by the skilled Deudermont and his experienced crew, and out-magicked by the mighty Robillard, who had been wielding his powerful dweomers in vessel-to-vessel warfare for well over a decade.
He had been outmaneuvered, outwitted, and outsmarted by the Empress-a cephalid.
He’d become aware how great a fear there’d been, especially among scientists on Pell during the War, that Cyteen, outgunned and outmaneuvered in space by the Fleet, would use biologics as a way of destroying Downbelow.
He'd become aware how great a fear there'd been, especially among scientists on Pell during the War, that Cyteen, outgunned and outmaneuvered in space by the Fleet, would use biologics as a way of destroying Downbelow.
In the course of five years she outmaneuvered him, leaving him stripped of most of his conciliar powers and close to bankruptcy.
Someone who had, without using craftings of his own, managed to outmaneuver, circumvent, or render impotent the furycraftings that protected the businesses of jewelers, goldsmiths, and more humble bakeries and smithies alike.
They have that death ray, but it's not quite as deadly as we might have feared, solely because our ships could outmaneuver them.
There was still the feeling of being outmaneuvered and outclassed, too far from his time, but he no longer suspected that Moneo might be toying with him.
There the Company directors, or their counterparts, had outargued or outmaneuvered the army until it was too late to seal the Gates.