All outwit synonyms

verb outwit

• outsmart — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
• outfox — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
• outmanoeuvre — British. outmaneuver.
• outmaneuver — to outwit, defeat, or frustrate by maneuvering.
• get the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
• take in — the act of taking.
• beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• cap — A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• dupe — duplicate.
• finagle — to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
• fox — Free Objects for Crystallography
• goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
• gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
• gyp — a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
• have — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• outdo — to surpass in execution or performance: The cook outdid himself last night.
• outgeneral — to outdo or surpass in generalship.
• outguess — to anticipate correctly the actions or intentions of; outwit.
• overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• top — Technical/Office Protocol
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• worst — in ill health; sick: He felt badly.
• figure out — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
• jip — (Ireland, colloquial) Ejaculated semen.
• juke — to make a move intended to deceive (an opponent).
• outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
• outthink — to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.