outwit
verb (used with object)
to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart.
have outwitted
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present perfectof outwit.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Linklater’s film seems to have outwitted the enemy, containing and controlling the poignancy of the passage of time, but that is just how it looks now.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2015
Schrödinger’s boxed cat may have outwitted the best philosophical minds so far, but it seems to have found plenty of technological reasons to stay put.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012
And yet Cults have outwitted their own evanescence with an album that’s confident and warm and purposefully naïve.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011
Mr. Justin Blake, you think you have outwitted Herod Voltaire!
From Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking
I have outwitted you, and now I know everything.
From The Daughter Pays by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
