outwit
verb (used with object)
to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart.
had outwitted
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past perfectof outwit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the campus toilets, whenever her ID flashed green across the display, she laughed, delighted, to think that she had outwitted it.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021
For example, the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme, an expert visitor to the region who had outwitted robbers and sandstorms, depicted a crowd at an Istanbul mosque praying in various seated, standing and bowed positions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left behind at Dunkirk and were living in the woods.
From Time Magazine Archive
While all Britain chuckled at how he had outwitted the strict British law against lotteries, Scotland Yard men walked into battlemented Blair Castle for a conference with the sporting Duke.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first, Omakayas tried to think she had won, that she had outwitted Old Tallow and made her impatient, as even the wariest animals often failed to do.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
