outwit
To beat someone by being cleverer than they are.
outwit in a sentence
- Clever Hare planned to outwit the fox by laying a false trail of carrot tops.
- In chess club, Priya loves to outwit older players with clever moves they never see coming.
Words that mean something similar
outsmart, trick, fool
More words about thinking & learning
- pensive: Quietly thinking hard about something, often looking a little sad.
- perceive: To notice or understand something.
- perplexed: Confused and unable to understand something.
- plausible: Sounding reasonable and likely to be true.
- ponder: To think about something slowly and carefully.
- precise: Exact and completely accurate.
- predict: To say what you think will happen in the future.
- prejudice: An unfair opinion about someone, formed without knowing the facts.
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Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test