From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: {outwit}, {overreach}, {outfox}, {beat}, {circumvent}]
2: defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops putmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new superviser knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations" [syn: {outmaneuver}, {outmanoeuvre}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "outsmart": bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, conjure, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, double-cross, dupe, elude, evade, foil, fool, forestall, frustrate, gammon, get around, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go one better, gull, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, juggle, let down, mock, outfigure, outflank, outfox, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outwit, overreach, pass the buck, pigeon, play one false, put something over, snow, stonewall, string along, swindle, take in, trick, two-time, undo, victimize
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