outplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"
beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - 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"
So strong was the play-instinct in him, as well as was his constitution strong, that he continually outplayed Scraps to abject weariness, so that he could only lie on the deck and pant and laugh through air-draughty lips and dab futilely in the air with weak forepaws at Michael's continued ferocious-acted onslaughts.
By Danotzki Santos/Doha El Jaish poured it on in the final period to outplay Al Arabi 73-62 to win the third place in the Qatar Men's Basketball League last night at the Al Gharafa Indoor Arena.
Let's change that scenario to, "What if I could inherit an obscene amount of musical talent and could then give it out like money?" I continually see talented but lazy students who never work and still outplay hard working ones with less ability.