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# outwit

verb (outwit, outwits, outwitted, outwitting)

«outwit» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To outwit someone is to beat them by being cleverer than they are, often by a trick. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#m1)
2. (in tales) A clever little hero outwits a giant or a fox. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories the clever small hero gets the better of a bigger, stupider enemy; in talk «you can't outwit me» means you can't trick me

### Examples

- I did not see that you were outwitting me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x1)
- The little dwarf outwitted the great useless creatures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x2)
- I must outwit these fish somehow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In Genesis it translates a word meaning that Jacob stole Laban's heart by leaving secretly.

**Interpretation.** The commentators discuss Jacob's secret flight and whether it was a trick, as Laban claimed.

### Examples

- And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. (Torah GEN.31.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x1)
- And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? (Torah GEN.31.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x2)
- Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; (Torah GEN.31.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «outwit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outwit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«outwit» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/outwit.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «outwit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outwit/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«outwit» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/outwit.html) on Mova free.