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out·wit /aʊtˈwɪt/ verb (outwitted, outwitting) [transitive] BEAT/DEFEATto gain an advantage over someone using tricks or clever plans 智胜，以计谋击败 a wolf that had outwitted hunters for years 一头多年来智胜猎人的狼→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusoutwit• It is the need to outwit and dupe and help and teach one another that drove us to be ever more intelligent.• She felt she had been tactically outwitted, and she hated him for it.• We use our intellects not to solve practical problems but to outwit each other.• One of them, Merovech, attempted to outwit his stepmother by marrying Sigibert's widow, Brunhild.• But Ray had outwitted many an opponent in the Olympics.• Speeders can outwit police radar with a variety of devices.• The realization bit into Harry's confidence that he could outwit such a man: who was he really fooling?• He was a lawyer, he ought to be able to outwit the law.out·wit verbChineseSyllable or advantage using tricks to someone over gain Corpus an |