Definition of Outwit

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Definition of Outwit
	Outwit To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. Related Definitions: Acquired, Acquiring, And, By, Craft, Cunning, Defeat, Experience, Faculty, In, Inwit, Observation, Of, Opposed, Or, Overreach, So, Superior, Surpass, The, To, Wisdom

Outwit Quotations

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
John Frusciante

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Twyla Tharp

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason Cooley

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim

Outwit Translations

outwit in French is distancer
outwit in Spanish is insidiar

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