Definition of "outgeneral" [out•gen•er•al]

• To surpass (another, especially an opponent) in leadership. (verb-transitive)

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• "But now I wondered whether Cheney had succumbed to the phenomenon I'd observed among some secretaries of the Army: put a civilian in charge of professional military men and before long he's no longer satisfied with setting policy but wants to outgeneral the generals."
• "The servant who could outwit or outgeneral her did not exist, and the servant who was not afraid of her lasted scant days."
• "Three years had now gone by since Metellus Pius and his eight legions had arrived in Further Spain, three years which had seen Sertorius outgeneral and outthink him."