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To outwit is to beat someone or defeat them because you are smarter or more clever.

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If you beat your opponent at a game of strategy because you are more adept and more clever at the game, this is an example of when you outwit your opponent.

See outwit in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb outwitted, outwitting

to overcome, or get the better of, by cunning or cleverness
Archaic to be more intelligent than

See outwit in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb out·wit·ted, out·wit·ting, out·wits

To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.
Archaic To surpass in intelligence.

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