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 →

2) (in tales) A clever little hero outwits a giant or a fox. tree →

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 →
• The little dwarf outwitted the great useless creatures. tree →
• I must outwit these fish somehow. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outwit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.