outwit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb beat through cleverness and wit
    outsmart; beat; overreach; outfox; circumvent.
    • I beat the traffic
    • She outfoxed her competitors

WordNet


Out*wit" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
    They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.
Out"wit noun
Definitions
  1. The faculty of acquiring wesdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. Obs. Piers Plowman.

Webster 1913