Synonyms of the word

outsmart

• v. (transitive) to beat in a competition of wits.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

best

• adj. superlative form of good: most good.
• adj. Most; largest.
• adv. superlative form of well: most well.
• adv. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
• n. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
• n. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
• n. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
• v. To surpass in skill or achievement.
• v. (transitive) To beat in a contest;.

circumvent

• v. (transitive) to avoid or get around something; to bypass.
• v. (transitive) to surround or besiege.
• v. (transitive) to outwit or outsmart.

exceed

• v. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
• v. (transitive) To be better than (something).
• v. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass, outstrip or transcend.
• v. (intransitive) To predominate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.

outdo

• v. (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

outflank

• v. (transitive) To maneuver around and behind the flank of (an opposing force).
• v. (transitive) To gain a tactical advantage over (a competitor, for example).

outfox

• v. (transitive) to beat in a competition of wits.

outgo

• v. (poetic) To go out, to set forth.
• v. (archaic) To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
• v. To overtake; to travel faster than.
• v. To outdo; exceed; surpass.
• n. The act or process of going out.
• n. A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
• n. (business, commerce) an expenditure, cost or outlay.

outmaneuver

• v. (US, transitive) To perform movements more adroitly or successfully than.

outmanoeuvre

• v. (Britain) To surpass, or get an advantage of, in manoeuvring; to outgeneral.

outmatch

• v. (transitive) to surpass or be better than something or someone else.

outperform

• v. To perform better than something or someone.

outstrip

• v. (transitive) To outrun or leave behind.
• v. (transitive) To exceed, excel or surpass.

outwit

• v. (transitive) To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.

overreach

• n. The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
• n. The act of extending or reaching too far, overextension.
• v. To reach above or beyond in any direction.
• v. To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
• v. To reach too far.
• v. (of horses) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot.
• v. (nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

scoop

• n. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
• n. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
• n. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
• n. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
• n. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
• n. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
• n. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
• n. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
• n. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to literally scoop…
• n. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• v. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
• v. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
• v. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to…
• v. To consume an alcoholic beverage.

surmount

• v. To get over; to overcome.
• v. To cap; to sit on top off.

surpass

• v. (transitive) To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

trump

• n. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
• n. (card games) A playing card of that suit.
• n. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
• n. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
• n. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
• n. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
• v. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
• v. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
• v. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
• v. (transitive) To supersede.
• n. (archaic) A trumpet.
• n. (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
• n. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
• v. To blow a trumpet.
• v. (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
• n. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.