outwitted
Verb
The word is derived from outwit
Synonyms
Examples
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
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 and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted.
Has he therefore outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.
I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife." Tell them what?" That you and I were outwitted by a ropma." That would be shamful." Girl, we could never live it down.
Guildenstern tries to look on the bright side, while Rosencrantz makes it clear that the pair had made no progress, that Hamlet had entirely outwitted them.
Ali was therefore outwitted by Muawiyah and Amr.