outplay

verb
/aʊtˈpleɪ/

Etymology

From out- + play.

  1. inherited from plæġ
  2. inherited from pleye
  3. inherited from *plegōn
  4. inherited from *plehan
  5. inherited from plegian
  6. inherited from pleġan
  7. inherited from plaȝen
  8. inherited from pleyen
  9. prefixed as outplay — “out + play

Definitions

  1. To excel or defeat in a game

    To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than.

    • We were outplayed at tennis, but we outplayed them at football.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outplay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA