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To outplay someone is to beat them in a game by playing with more skill than they do — better choices, cleaner moves, not just luck and not just a bigger body. Football, basketball, chess, and video-game commentators all love it. “They were outplayed in the second half” means the other side was simply better on the field, even if the score stayed close. You can outplay a stronger team on the day. Though actually, English does not really use this word for beating someone in an argument or a business deal; for those, people reach for outsmart, outperform, or just beat. Sports and games are home. The out- is the “more than” out-, the same idea as outpace, not the “outside the hospital” out- of outpatient.
以技術勝過（對手）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
outplayverb/aʊtˈpleɪ/
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To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than.
- We were outplayed at tennis, but we outplayed them at football.
- When Littlefinger really starts to bare his teeth, talking about a game he plays where he assumes the worst of people’s intentions, I started to hope the producers had outplayed us one last time, and that he was aware they were trying to play him.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。