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outthink

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out⋅think

  [out-thingk]
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–verb (used with object), -thought, -think⋅ing.
1. to excel in thinking; think faster, more accurately, or more perceptively than: outthinking most of her contemporaries in the field of human relations.
2. to get the advantage of (someone) by quick or clever thinking; outwit: only a split second to outthink his opponent.
Origin:
1695–1705; out- + think 1
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out·think   (out-thĭngk')   
tr.v.   out·thought (-thôt), out·think·ing, out·thinks

  1. To outdo (another) in thinking.

  2. To outwit by thinking.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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