Thesaurus: outwit
To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
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Definitions
- v. t. To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
- n. The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
- v. beat through cleverness and wit
- To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden. The faculty of acquiring wesdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
- To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreachby superior craft.They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.
- v:100 v. beat through cleverness and wit