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outwits
verb as in get the better of; figure out before another
Weak matches
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end-run
- fake out
- finagle
- fox
- goose
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- lead astray
- make a fool of
- make a monkey of
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- pull a fast one on
- put one over on
- run circles around
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
verb as in deceive
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Example Sentences
By dint of imposture, he outwits them; yet, in consequence of his miracles and illusions, he at length discovers himself.
Nothing it can do to us, nothing that can happen to it, outwits us—at least more than a few hundred years at a time.
The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by calling himself ουτις is clearly of the same order.
Proverbially such acts belong to a policy that outwits itself.
The examples in which the husband, on the other hand, outwits the wife are few.
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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to outwits, such as: baffle, bamboozle, beat, bewilder, cap, and cheat.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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