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outcrafty

outcrafty verb: to exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.

Verb

outcrafty (third-person singular simple present outcrafties, present participle outcraftying, simple past and past participle outcraftied)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.
    • That drug-damn’d Italy hath out-craftied him,
      And he’s at some hard point.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Forms of outcrafty

third-person singular presentoutcrafties
present participleoutcraftying
past participleoutcraftied
pastoutcraftied

Origin of outcrafty

From out- + crafty.

Questions about outcrafty

What does outcrafty mean?
Outcrafty means to exceed in craft or cunning; overpower by guile.
What part of speech is outcrafty?
Outcrafty is a verb.
What is the past tense of outcrafty?
The past tense of outcrafty is outcraftied.

Words near outcrafty in the dictionary

  1. outcracked
  2. outcracking
  3. outcracks
  4. outcraftied
  5. outcrafties
  6. outcrafty
  7. outcraftying
  8. outcrawl
  9. outcrawled
  10. outcrawling
  11. outcrawls

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