verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outfox/outwit/outmanoeuvre an opponent (= gain an advantage over an opponent by being more intelligent or skilful than they are )
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Football is all about outwitting your opponents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Speeders can outwit police radar with a variety of devices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Ray had outwitted many an opponent in the Olympics.
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He was a lawyer, he ought to be able to outwit the law.
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It is the need to outwit and dupe and help and teach one another that drove us to be ever more intelligent.
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One of them, Merovech, attempted to outwit his stepmother by marrying Sigibert's widow, Brunhild.
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She felt she had been tactically outwitted, and she hated him for it.
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The realization bit into Harry's confidence that he could outwit such a man: who was he really fooling?
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We use our intellects not to solve practical problems but to outwit each other.