to upstage
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6.5
- verb
- /ˈʌpˌsteɪdʒ/
:
robar protagonismo
- Anyway, I was throwing so many one-liners at the BBQ that I totally upstaged the President.
What's happening here is that your Star Trek test is more accurate at seeing where the cancer is, and because of that, it's likely to upstage people.
- What's happening here is that your Star Trek test is more accurate at seeing where the cancer is, and because of that, it's likely to upstage people.
Examples
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They didn't want to upstage the others.
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You're developing a real knack for upstaging me.
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We wouldn't want to upstage the talent.
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You never should have upstaged the queen, and now we're both paying the price.
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I have a problem trying to upstage Victor Delgado.
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Whenever anyone mentions something they have done, she sidles up to try to upstage them.
Blog text (5) -
Thanks to the folks at SB Nation, here is the Chicago defense once again upstaging the offense.
Blog text (1) -
There was one much-recounted occasion when she even upstaged Princess Margaret with the sheer force of her physical presence.
Fiction book (1995) -
Many older faculty feel that the younger faculty are out to upstage them, and their insecurity often manifests itself in outright hostility.
Academic text (1995) -
During the performance, she managed to upstage her co-star with her impressive singing.
Synonyms
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5.9
To make someone or something seem less important compared with another
15
4.8
Do better and get more attention than others
To impress people more than others
How Noticeable
- Informal
14
3.7
48
3.7
22
6.5
15
4.8
22
3.8
11
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Upstage (verb, to outshine) comes from that theatre action of stepping upstage to steal the audience's eyes, so to upstage someone is to attract attention away from them or to outshine them.