verb [VN]
1 to move around the side of an enemy or opponent, especially in order to attack them from behind:
Instead of confronting the enemy directly, Napoleon simply outflanked them.
2 to gain an advantage over sb, especially by doing sth unexpected:
They found themselves outflanked by the rival takeover bid.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for outflank is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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