Deceive vs Outwit - What's the difference?
deceive | outwit |
To trick or mislead.
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, year=2012
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, title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :
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To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
As verbs the difference between deceive and outwit
is that deceive is to trick or mislead while outwit is to get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.deceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}