outwit

To surpass in cleverness or cunning; outsmart.

The faculty of observation, or the knowledge gained by observation and experience: opposed to inwit.

To surpass in intelligence.

To surpass in plots or stratagems; defeat or frustrate by superior ingenuity; prove too clever for.

To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning.

To defeat or gain an advantage over by superior craft or cunning stratagems.

The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; — opposed to inwit.

To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.

beat through cleverness and wit