outmaneuver

1. 1.

   defeat by more skillful maneuvering

   “The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans”

   “My new supervisor knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations”

   Synonymsoutmanoeuvreoutsmart

   Broaderoutdo

   Narroweroutgeneral

Other forms of outmaneuver

past tense

outmaneuverred·

present participle

outmaneuverring·

third person

outmaneuvers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about outmaneuver

What does outmaneuver mean?

outmaneuver means "defeat by more skillful maneuvering".

How many syllables are in outmaneuver?

outmaneuver has 4 syllables: out-ma-neu-ver. The stress falls on "neu". In IPA it is /aʊtməˈnuvɚ/.

What is another word for outmaneuver?

Close synonyms include outmanoeuvre, outsmart. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is outmaneuver a common word?

outmaneuver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with outmaneuver?

1 word rhymes with outmaneuver. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.