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upstage
[ uhp-steyj ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or located at the back of the stage.
- haughtily aloof; supercilious.
verb (used with object)
- to overshadow (another performer) by moving upstage and forcing the performer to turn away from the audience.
- to outdo professionally, socially, etc.
- to behave snobbishly toward.
upstage
/ ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ /
adverb
- on, at, or to the rear of the stage
adjective
- of or relating to the back half of the stage
- informal.haughty; supercilious; aloof
verb
- to move upstage of (another actor), thus forcing him to turn away from the audience
- informal.to draw attention to oneself from (someone else); steal the show from (someone)
- informal.to treat haughtily
noun
- the back half of the stage
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Example Sentences
So, Streep rewrote much of her dialogue, which led to tension with her co-star, Hoffman, who felt she was trying to upstage him.
Daily Pic (Venice Biennale Edition): Yuri Ancarani shows that medical magic can upstage the aesthetic kind.
It takes great talent to upstage a man accepting his party's presidential nomination.
In terms of attire, one did not upstage the other by looking more sophisticated or fashionable—or elitist, God forbid.
Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading.
Few are native-born New Yorkers, and scarcely any of them go around with their noses in the air in an "upstage Eastern manner."
Single rose-coloured corduroy curtain for archway up R. hung on upstage side of arch.
One perceived, dimly, a high sombre draping, very far upstage.
A similar door, opening into the bedroom of the shack, upstage right.
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