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outsmart

verb
/aʊtˈsmɑː(ɹ)t/

Etymology

From out- + smart.

  1. derived from *(s)merd-✻
  2. inherited from *smertaną✻
  3. inherited from *smertan✻
  4. inherited from *smeortan✻
  5. inherited from smerten
  6. prefixed as outsmart — “out + smart”

Definitions

  1. To beat in a competition of wits.

    • Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at outsmart. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at outsmart. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at outsmart

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA