(outflanks, outflanking, outflanked)
1.
In a battle, when one group of soldiers outflanks another, it succeeds in moving past the other group in order to be able to attack it from the side.
...plans designed by General Schwarzkopf to outflank them from the west.
VERB: V n
2.
If you outflank someone, you succeed in getting into a position where you can defeat them, for example in an argument.
He had tried to outflank them...
VERB: V n