outgeneral

Well, as anybody at the Drones will tell you, Bertram Wooster is a pretty hard chap to outgeneral.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Then I saw an elderly gentleman pacing back and forth between two feminine chatterboxes, and trying to outgeneral the two happy people.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis

But that he could outgeneral William, that he could even manage Gospatrick and his intrigues Hereward expected as little as that his own nephews Edwin and Morcar could do it.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles

There were many signs, and I had to be always on the lookout to outgeneral them.

From Death Valley in '49 by Manly, William Lewis

To outgeneral a dog-fancier was a tribute to his shrewdness; to save two hundred dollars on a single purchase was economy of a high order.

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

I don't know when I have ever been as comprehensively and pleasurably outgeneraled as I am when I read Martin.

From Time ● Jul. 9, 2011

How completely the enemy had been outgeneraled was evident in the positions of Eisenhower's armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even while the issue remained in doubt, it was evident that the Japanese had outgeneraled the Allies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outnumbered, outgunned, outgeneraled, and easily outfought, the rebels in Sumatra last week were pushed to the wall.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Butler was outgeneraled by Beauregard, who succeeded in "bottling him up," as Grant expressed it, at Bermuda Hundred, a peninsula formed by the James, twenty miles below Richmond.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

Out-gunning and outgeneraling the U.S. players at every turn, Sedgman never let either of his opponents get really set, much less launch an attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

The smile was that of the conquering hero, outgeneraling in retreat allied forces outnumbering his small army a thousand times.

From Cupid's Middleman by Lent, Edward B.

"The Building Fund" tells the story of the outgeneraling of grasping son and conniving daughter's daughter by a hard old woman of the strong farmer class in the west of Ireland.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

By the spring of 1942, Slim admits, "we, the Allies, had been outmanoeuvred, outfought, and outgeneralled."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Thebans had been outgeneralled, and were dismayed by the result.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Cornwallis, who had gone to bed expecting to make short work of Washington in the morning, saw himself fairly outgeneralled.

From The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Drake, Samuel Adams

The widow was flanked, outgeneralled, routed along the whole line.

From That Mother-in-Law of Mine by Anonymous

Abe Lincoln may have skill, but he has not yet shown much of it; and certainly he more than once has shown himself outgeneralled.

From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard

He is a master tactician, and wins most of his matches by outgeneralling the other player.

From The Art of Lawn Tennis by Tilden, William (Bill) Tatem