What's the difference between outgeneral and outmanoeuvre?
Outgeneral
Definition:
(v. t.) To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver.
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Outmanoeuvre
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass, or get an advantage of, in maneuvering; to outgeneral.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a damning final match for a West Ham manager completely outmanoeuvred by his opposite number, Roberto Martínez, who salvaged this match with a double half-time substitution.
(2) That is the most frustrating aspect of the current political debate, because in an effort to outmanoeuvre one another, our leaders are making promises to enact a policy for which the benefits are dubious.
(3) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
(4) There are already signs that he is being outmanoeuvred by Cruz when it comes to recruiting delegates.
(5) Having already outmanoeuvred James Tomkins, Moyes’s prize asset shot low beyond Steve Mandanda’s reach, leaving Ledley staring at the floor.
(6) But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya.
(7) Vlad flashed a half-hearted smile, keen not to look outmanoeuvred by such third-rate power games.
(8) Tearing up the rules of Brussels conduct, Tspiras and Varoufakis, his finance minister-cum-field marshal, have outmanoeuvred and divided the surplus states by constantly re-engaging, over five months, from unexpected, demanding and outrageous battle positions.” It is, of course, possible that Tsipras has overplayed his hand.
(9) The game against Liverpool was supposed to be pivotal in itself, a chance for Chelsea to copy the blueprint that was so successful when they outmanoeuvred Manchester City at the Etihad in February.
(10) Desperate public bodies were gulled and outmanoeuvred with the blessing of central government, which sought only to keep the corporations off its back and the liabilities off its balance sheets.
(11) The west is being "outspent, outmanoeuvred and out-strategised" by violent Islamic extremism, Tony Blair has warned.
(12) They would eventually get a consolation goal, Omar Gonzalez heading home a Camilo Sanvezzo free-kick in injury time, but they had been thoroughly outmanoeuvred.
(13) Well, he certainly outmanoeuvred the so-called Hotmail plot of Blairite ministers and backbenchers.
(14) By the time of the show he had upped the rhetoric to claim that Boeing was outmanoeuvring Airbus: "We've got them boxed and bracketed."
(15) Netanyahu has also refused to give ground on Jerusalem; has yet to endorse the US-backed road-map concept of a two-state solution; insists the Palestinian leadership must first accept his definition of Israel as a Jewish state; and has refused to contemplate returning the Golan Heights to Syria, another crucial part of the Arab-Israeli peace jigsaw.The only issue that Netanyahu and Obama appear to have agreed on is the threat posed by Iran, and on this, the US leader was outmanoeuvred.
(16) Ever since taking office in 2006, Mr Maliki has failed to be the national leader he should have been and, instead, has devoted himself to propping up his own Shia base, outmanoeuvring or subordinating rivals, and, increasingly, to excluding Sunnis from political power.
(17) Dusan and [Steven] Davis were fantastic.” Fraser Forster had palmed away a Raheem Sterling shot after Iheanacho had outmanoeuvred Virgil van Dijk on the touchline but Southampton were into their stride early on and within eight minutes of that chance for Sterling, City were two down and blue shirts in defence wore vacant stares.
(18) Europe and the US sat on the sidelines of the Syrian conflict, again outmanoeuvred by Russian intervention.
(19) If they promoted positive lesbian- and gay-rights policies, the Tories could outmanoeuvre Labour and win over more gay voters.
(20) Can this bruised and battered army, ridiculed for abandoning its promises on tuition fees, outmanoeuvred by its Tory partners over electoral reform, and struggling under a leader who went from national hero before the election to national hate figure after, really recover to its pre-election heights of 20% and more in the polls?