outmanoeuvre

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”

   Synonymsoutmaneuveroutsmart

   Broaderoutdo

   Narroweroutgeneral

Other forms of outmanoeuvre

past tense

outmanoeuvred·

present participle

outmanoeuvring·

third person

outmanoeuvres·

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 outmanoeuvre

What does outmanoeuvre mean?

outmanoeuvre means "defeat by more skillful maneuvering".

How many syllables are in outmanoeuvre?

outmanoeuvre has 5 syllables: o-ut-ma-no-euvre. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for outmanoeuvre?

Close synonyms include outmaneuver, 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 outmanoeuvre a common word?

outmanoeuvre 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.