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verb
Outflank  v. t.  
1.
(Mil.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
2.
Hence: To outmaneuver in a competition; to bypass a competitor's main defenses.





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"Outflank" Quotes from Famous Books



... evident, after studying the positions for about fifteen minutes and sweeping every contour of the ground through glasses, that the enemy had no chance whatever of breaking through unless they could outflank Kagig's line. I held such impregnable advantage of height and cover and clear view that the men I had with me were ample to prevent the turning of our right wing. Our left flank rested on the brawling ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy
... fair army scorned all unknightly devices, and would never have descended to any vile ruse de guerre. The reproach can therefore never be made against them that they ever intended to outflank their enemy. Yet, when both armies advanced after the discharge of the musketoons and the merry noise of the cannon, this occurred as the result of chance, which no leader can be held accountable for; so that those that speak of treachery ...
— Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, Dunsany
... away, but my work was near. With a dozen bull-whackers I made a dash out of the draw and, circling wide, we rode like demons to outflank the cloud of dust that hid our precious property. On we swept, fleet and sure, in a mad burst of speed to save our own. We were gaining now, and turning the cloud toward the river. Another spurt, and we would have them checked, ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... transcending it might become? That it would be transcending and tender and big was certain. If poor, frivolous, futile Claude could feel like this, could feel that he must redeem his soul though "any damn thing that liked" should happen as the price of his redemption, in Thor the yearning would outflank her range. Might not the secret of secrets be in that? Might not that which she had been seeing as treachery to herself be no more than a conflict of aspirations? If Claude, with his blurred distortion of the divine ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King


Words linked to "Outflank" :   beat out, travel, go, outdo, outsmart, trounce, best, outmanoeuvre, trump, go around, scoop, crush, move, locomote, beat, shell


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