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outmaneuvre

outmaneuvre is the nonstandard spelling of outmaneuver.

Meaning of outmaneuver

Verb

outmaneuver (third-person singular simple present outmaneuvers, present participle outmaneuvering, simple past and past participle outmaneuvered)

  1. American standard spelling of outmanoeuvre.
    • Her banter with Cruise comes with wily amusement. She’s not intimidated by him; in fact, she matches him beat for beat and when the action moves to that long car chase scene she actually outmaneuvers him.2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club

Forms of outmaneuvre

third-person singular presentoutmaneuvres
present participleoutmaneuvring
past participleoutmaneuvred
pastoutmaneuvred

Origin of outmaneuvre

From out- + maneuvre.

Questions about outmaneuvre

What is outmaneuvre the nonstandard spelling of?
Outmaneuvre is the nonstandard spelling of outmaneuver.

Words near outmaneuvre in the dictionary

  1. outmanaging
  2. outmaneuver
  3. outmaneuvered
  4. outmaneuvering
  5. outmaneuvers
  6. outmaneuvre
  7. outmaneuvred
  8. outmaneuvres
  9. outmaneuvring
  10. outmanipulate
  11. outmanipulated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outmaneuvre (page history and authors); outmaneuver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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