"outplay" is a word that can be used in written English
It is used to mean to outperform or be more skillful than one's opponents. Example sentence: The team managed to outplay their opponents and won the championship.
John Hughes's team were emphatically the more threatening, even if the menace was accompanied by the uneasy recognition of their season-long ability to outplay opponents and leave defeated as a consequence of their inability to exploit their advantages.
That helped them outplay Arsène Wenger's team and Anderlecht could have been more than one goal in front before a squad with an average age of 22 betrayed their inexperience and allowed Arsenal to plunder two goals in the last two minutes to escape with a scarcely deserved victory.
BP's attempt to outplay Russian oligarchs at their own game of power politics failed.Mr Fridman pulled strings, Gazprom disengaged and Mr Dudley, then the chief executive of TNK-BP, had to flee Russia.
In 153 one of the Seleucid pretenders, Alexander Balas, in order to outplay the legitimate king, Demetrius, granted Jonathan the office of high priest and gave him the Seleucid rank of a courtier, thereby legitimizing his position.
Southgate said: "I don't think we are in a situation where, as a country, we can go out there and outplay too many teams.
Sitting in freezing conditions in a tiny stadium in a small town in Denmark, watching a team that had not played a competitive game in more than two months totally outplay the self-styled "biggest club in the world" and paying £71 for the experience.
Roy Hodgson's England squad fly to Poland today to their Euro 2012 base camp with a warning from one of the Football Association's most senior figures that the nation has to be realistic about the potential of a team that is not able to "outplay" other elite European teams.
England appeared to out-think and outplay New Zealand at the weekend, clearing the short straight boundaries almost at will and then - with some canny and accurate bowling - preventing their hosts doing the same in a tough run chase.
In particular, Saudi Arabia has used the Sunni card to outplay Iran.
Unless the Premier League clubs significantly outplay their Serie A rivals this season, it is something that will happen.
Spain must believe that they have the ability to outplay the bruising Dutch midfield of Mark van Bommel and the restored Nigel de Jong and that the sheer weight of their revolving pressure will wear down the 35-year-old captain, Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
