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单词 outwit
释义
outwit
verb[T]
uk
/ˌaʊtˈwɪt/us
/ˌaʊtˈwɪt/
-tt-(alsooutsmart)
to get anadvantageover someone byactingmorecleverlyand often by using atrick:
（智力上）超过，胜过；智胜
In thestory, thecunningfoxoutwits thehunters.在这个故事里，狡猾的狐狸智胜了猎人。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Cheating & tricking
  • anti-fraud
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • deceive
  • fiddle
  • flannel
  • gull
  • have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
  • havesomeoneon
  • hoax
  • hocus-pocus
  • hustle
  • pull a fast oneidiom
  • pull the wool oversomeone'seyesidiom
  • punk
  • putsomethingacross/oversomeone
  • putsomethingon
  • racket
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(Definition ofoutwitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

outwit| American Dictionary

outwit
verb[T]
us
/ˌɑʊtˈwɪt/
-tt-
toobtainanadvantageover someone by being moreintelligent; tooutsmart:
It isimpossibletonegotiateif onesidefeelsthat the othersideistryingto outwit them.
(Definition ofoutwitfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoutwit

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She escapes the fate of the preceding wives by either outwitting the villain or a timely rescue.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Responsible officials sometimes change their behavior in order tooutwitthe quantifiers.
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The raven is known as acting as a scavenger, competing with and often outwitting the dogs and even the hunters.
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You need to know that there are ways tooutwitone's craving for crullers.
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Our powers of visual and aural perception bothoutwitthe current capabilities of multimedia computing systems and are also all too readily defeated by them.
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Old women and identity maintenance : outwitting the grim reaper.
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We therefore have a fool who on one hand eats a hawk because his master says it is good, but on the other canoutwita journeyman shoemaker.
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Time is likely to cause the best-motivated personnel in the world to become lax and inattentive - not to mention the fact that they may be outwitted, bribed, or subverted.
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At the outset, these factors represent conditioned obstacles to increasing utilisation, in that they have only partly been outwitted by the application of adequate technology, know-how, and operational navigational experience.
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There is also an attempt tooutwitthe law by calling them magnifying glasses.
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On the contrary, the more yououtwitthem, within the rules of the game, the better player you are.
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But they are opponents, and the aim of each pair is tooutwittheir opponents.
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We all of us, in order to earn our livings, have tooutwitsomebody.
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As has been said in the debate, it is something that a trained agent can easilyoutwitand deal with.
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Had she not won the psychological struggle and outwitted him, she believes that she would not have escaped from her flat alive.
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