outwit

From out- +‎ wit.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈwɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

outwit (third-person singular simple present outwits, present participle outwitting, simple past and past participle outwitted)

1. (transitive) To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:

     But my dear Lady Teazle 'tis your own fault if you suffer it—when a Husband entertains a groundless suspicion of his Wife and withdraws his confidence from her—the original compact is broke and she owes it to the Honour of her sex to endeavour to outwit him—

• outfox, outguess, outsmart, overreach