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Outwit vs Outwin - What's the difference?

outwit | outwin |

As verbs the difference between outwit and outwin

is that outwit is to get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits while outwin is (obsolete) to win a way out (of); to escape (from).

outwit

English

Verb

(outwitt)
  • To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.

    • Synonyms

    *outfox, outguess, outsmart

    outwin

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To win a way out (of); to escape (from).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
  • *:It is a darksome delve farre under ground, / With thornes and barren brakes environd round, / That none the same may easily out-win […].