(v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) The promising world No72 was comprehensively outplayed in the second set and regularly looked to her coaches in frustration.
(2) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) But we are now faced with a fight to reach that objective and feel a change is necessary to maximise the opportunity presented by the final 13 games.” Leicester City’s triumph: the inside story of an extraordinary season | Stuart James Read more Ranieri was informed of the decision on his return from the club’s Champions League last-16 tie against Sevilla when, to put Leicester’s season into context, the champions of England came back from Spain seemingly happy with a 2-1 defeat in which they were largely outplayed.
(5) You can be sure that Murray won't tire, even if he is outplayed.
(6) After beating the Ghana team that had eliminated them from each of the past two World Cups, they followed up on Sunday by outplaying a Portugal side that – despite some notable injury problems – still had the Fifa World Player of the Year at its disposal.
(7) We were totally outplayed and England deserved all three points.
(8) The Spurs defender Toby Alderweireld, who was one of just four players to retain his place from last weekend’s Premier League draw against Arsenal, admitted they had been outplayed.
(9) Manchester United had been outplayed, it was plain to see and for the losing manager the ordeal was so great, the jolt so shuddering, there have been times since when it has felt like he has wanted to shut it out of his life.
(10) Prior to that Italy simply found themselves outplayed by younger and pacier opponents.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 1.47am GMT Real Salt Lake I was at the stadium when Real Salt Lake outshot, outplayed and generally bombarded D.C. United in the Open Cup final in September, only to watch their opponents score with the one chance they had, and their own efforts seemingly defy the laws of physics in staying out.
(12) Watching Robert Pires dribbling his way out of trouble in his own penalty area late in the game, it was possible to reflect that Arsenal did not just play United off the park, they outplayed them in all areas of the park.
(13) Belief began to flicker and, when a Hitzlsperger free-kick was headed across the face of the Wigan goal by James Tomkins and bundled in by Ba,, who finished amid the netting, it flared, fuelled by news from St Andrew's, where Birmingham City, who would have relegated West Ham with a point, were being hopelessly outplayed by Fulham.
(14) Yet Peterborough are a side capable of winning any one-off tie at this level, as they proved when they lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in March despite having been outplayed for large spells of the game by Chesterfield of League Two.
(15) Madrid were outplayed in Rafa Benítez’s first clásico as coach – a clásico in which he fielded a side that did not feel much like his own.
(16) Against Ghana, he made four saves to help the USA win despite being outplayed.
(17) Ultimately, however, United were comprehensively outplayed and fortunate it was not a more punishing result.
(18) Outplayed, they were complacent and missed the rested Paul Scholes.
(19) They do it to teams week in, week out, outplaying them and beating them.
(20) Instead Wigan outthought and outplayed a Manchester City side who were sluggish, out of synch and reckless, no one more so than Pablo Zabaleta, who joined Kevin Moran and José Antonio Reyes in being the only players to be sent off in an FA Cup final.