outsmarting

English

Verb

outsmarting

1. present participle and gerund of outsmart

Noun

outsmarting (plural outsmartings)

1. An instance of somebody being outsmarted.
   • 2010, George Comstock, Erica Scharrer, Media and the American Child, page 61:

     If I am five years old I perceive Bugs as a funny bunny with a unique voice and I appreciate his slapstick pie-in-the-face humor, especially his manipulations and outsmartings of Elmer Fudd, his arch nemesis.

Anagrams

• outmigrants