Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb outplay

1 sense of outplay

Sense 1
outplay -- (excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers")
       => beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")