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outˈgeneral, v.
[out- 22.]
a. trans. To outdo or defeat in generalship; to get the better of as by superior military skill; to outmanœuvre.
1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 202 How we were out-generalled indeed! 1776J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 231 In general, our Generals were outgeneraled on Long Island. 1897Century Mag. Feb. 495 In these movements Lee was entirely outgeneraled.
b. transf. and fig.
1859J. S. Mill in Fraser's Mag. LX. 767/1 A nation which thinks of nothing but of outwitting and outgeneralling its neighbours. 1910J. Driscoll Ringcraft 14 He was the better boxer and the stronger man, but was outgeneralled during two-thirds of the bout. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 184 At last he outgeneralled himself with his own strategy:..even his father admitted that there was nothing else about the farm for him to learn. 1973Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous x. 128 However confident he may be that he has outgeneralled a woman, a man likes to have reassurance on the point from a knowledgeable third party. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 1-B/6 Tanner has played better tennis—little Kirmayr out-generalled him time and again—but always in reserve was his 140 m.p.h. cannonball service. |