Definition of Outwitted

1. Verb. (past of outwit) ¹

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Definition of Outwitted

1. outwit [v] - See also: outwit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwitted

outwinging
outwings
outwinning
outwins
outwinter
outwintered
outwintering
outwinters
outwish
outwished
outwishes
outwishing
outwit
outwith
outwits
outwitted
outwitter
outwitters
outwitting
outwon
outwoo
outwooed
outwooing
outwore
outwork
outworked
outworker
outworkers
outworking
outworkings

Literary usage of Outwitted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"Outwitted He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE DEVIL Outwitted: Л TALE. A VICAR liv'd on this side Trent, Religious, learn'd, benevolent, Pure was his life, in deed, word, thought, A comment on the ..."

3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"Outwitted He drew a circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in! ..."

4. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"HOW THE YANKEE LEAGUE WAXED MORE AND MORE POTENT; AND HOW IT Outwitted THE GOOD PETER IN TREATY- MAKING. Now it came to pass, that while Peter Stuyvesant ..."

5. The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett (1800)
"... and were now fairly outwitted and anticipated by the motions and expedition of the. ... outwitted ..."

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