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# outwit

«outwit» in Mova's school dictionary: **to beat them by being cleverer than they are, often by a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (outwit, outwits, outwitted, outwitting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To outwit someone is to beat them by being cleverer than they are, often by a trick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#m1)

2) (in tales) A clever little hero outwits a giant or a fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories the clever small hero gets the better of a bigger, stupider enemy; in talk «you can't outwit me» means you can't trick me

### examples

- I did not see that you were outwitting me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x1)
- The little dwarf outwitted the great useless creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x2)
- I must outwit these fish somehow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.956/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outwit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.