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out-Byzantining

out-Byzantining is the present participle and gerund of out-Byzantine.

Meaning of out-Byzantine

Verb

out-Byzantine (third-person singular simple present out-Byzantines, present participle out-Byzantining, simple past and past participle out-Byzantined)

  1. (transitive) To appear to be a more subtle negotiator than; to outsmart.
    • Although Ambassador Korry had admonished the president that “trying to out-Byzantine” the emperor “would be futile and counterproductive” and that Kennedy therefore should “spell out details of the U.S. program and justification from the start,” Washington tried to outsmart HIM […]2011, Theodore Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World, page 127

Questions about out-Byzantining

What is out-Byzantining the present participle and gerund of?
Out-Byzantining is the present participle and gerund of out-Byzantine.

Words near out-Byzantining in the dictionary

  1. out-book
  2. out-books
  3. out-Byzantine
  4. out-Byzantined
  5. out-Byzantines
  6. out-Byzantining
  7. out-chorus
  8. out-choruses
  9. out-Christian
  10. out-Christianed
  11. out-Christianing

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