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单词 out-trick
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out-trickv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈtrɪk/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈtrɪk/
Forms: see out- prefix and trick v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, trick v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + trick v.
transitive. To surpass in tricking; to defeat by trickery.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)] > outdo by trickery
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1677 A. Behn Rover i. ii. 14 Your Womans wit! your fair kind Woman! will out-trick a Broker or a Jew: and contrive like a Jesuit in Chains.
1692 T. D'Urfey Marriage-hater Match'd iv. ii. 39 Why this is the prettiest project to out-trick a Lawyer.
1715 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion iii. 530 A Parliament conven'd, whose Members knew How Cromwel had out-trick'd the former two.
1780 M. P. Andrews Fire & Water ii. ii. 33 In love or in war, He'll out-trick you far, And shine in the cabinet council.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iii. v. 267 The weaker party was endeavouring to out-trick the stronger.
1867 W. M. Thackeray Early & Late Papers 109 Perdition! to have been out-tricked by a boy and a country boor!
a1958 D. Schwartz New & Sel. Poems (1967) 236 How with his very failure, he out-tricked The florid Douglas and the abstract Davis.
2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 8 May 78 They had the reserve, John Curtis, playing at right-back, and a number of times during the first half alone I out-tricked him and came close to scoring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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