Definition of Outwits

1. Verb. (third-person singular of outwit) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outwits

1. outwit [v] - See also: outwit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwits

outwinged
outwinging
outwings
outwinning
outwins
outwinter
outwintered
outwintering
outwinters
outwish
outwished
outwishes
outwishing
outwit
outwith
outwits (current term)
outwitted
outwitter
outwitters
outwitting
outwon
outwoo
outwooed
outwooing
outwore
outwork
outworked
outworker
outworkers
outworking

Literary usage of Outwits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade (1904)
"A WOMAN outwits TWO MEN CHAPTER XIX A WOMAN outwits TWO MEN " Ay," said Hope, " that's the same specious argument you tempted me with fifteen years ago. ..."

2. History of New Netherland by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1855)
"... offers protection to all runaways from New Haven—Comments on such proceeding—Stuyvesant writes to Massachusetts and Virginia—outwits Governor ..."

3. Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler (1921)
"A third version (c), a Bicol story entitled "Marcela outwits the King," narrated by Gregorio Frondoso of Camarines, resembles closely the ..."

4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... CASANOVA outwits THE INQUISITION. (From "The Escapes of Casanova and Latude from Prison'': translation of Clara ..."

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