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What (who) is Outwit - definition
outwit
(outwits, outwitting, outwitted)
If you outwit someone, you use your intelligence or a clever trick to defeat them or to gain an advantage over them.
To win the presidency he had first to outwit his rivals within the Socialist Party...
VERB: V n
Outwit
·vt To surpass in wisdom, ·esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
II. Outwit ·noun The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired;
- opposed to inwit.
outwit
v. a.
1.
Outgeneral, out-manoeuvre, baffle, steal a march upon.
2.
Overreach, cheat, dupe, deceive, circumvent, swindle, defraud, victimize, cozen, gull, diddle, take in, impose upon.
Examples of use of Outwit
1. If his only problems were to track the caribou and outwit the fox.
2. However, advances in technology are equipping criminals with clever ways to outwit the system.
3. I don‘t buy the idea that kids can‘t outwit intelligent investigators.
4. "She and Chris were desperate not to be photographed together and thought they would outwit photographers.
5. The magazine reported that trying to outwit forensic science is scarcely new.