transitive. To overcome, overpower, get the better of (by force, deceit, etc.); to oppress, overwhelm. Also in weakened use.

By-form of circumvent, v.: chiefly Scottish.

To get the better of by craft or fraud; to overreach, outwit, cheat, ‘get round’, ‘take in’. Also, to evade or find a way around (a difficulty…

figurative. To subvert secretly; to outdo by craft or stealth; to undersell in trade.

transitive. To outwit, cheat, or defraud. Also occasionally intransitive. Now rare.

figurative. To compass in thought, circumvent, get round. Obsolete.

transitive. Originally: to outdo in, or defeat by, trickery or deceit (now rare). Also: to juggle more skilfully than.

transitive. To get the better of (a person) by superior skill, craft, or ingenuity; to prove too clever for.

transitive. To outdo in plotting; to outmanoeuvre.

transitive. To get the better of by cunning; to outwit.

transitive. To overreach or outdo by lying. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome by trickery; to be more cunning than, outwit; to outdo in jockeying.

to steal a march: in military sense, to succeed in moving troops without the knowledge of the enemy; hence gen. to get a secret advantage over a…

intransitive. slang. To take advantage of (someone); to circumvent; (also, in later use) to dominate, overwhelm.

transitive. To get or try to get the better of (a person) by charging too much or paying too little; to cheat or swindle (out of something)…

transitive. To outdo in cunning; to outwit.

transitive. To defeat or get the better of (a person, etc.) through superior skill or ingenuity; to prove too clever for; to outwit. Occasionally refl…

transitive. In sport, to attack or strike (an opponent) on the blind side. Chiefly figurative, to take advantage of a weakness in (another), to…