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upstage

[ uhp-steyj ]

adverb

  1. on or toward the back of the stage.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or located at the back of the stage.
  2. haughtily aloof; supercilious.

verb (used with object)

, up·staged, up·stag·ing.
  1. to overshadow (another performer) by moving upstage and forcing the performer to turn away from the audience.
  2. to outdo professionally, socially, etc.
  3. to behave snobbishly toward.

noun

  1. the rear half of the stage.
  2. any stage position to the rear of another.

upstage

/ ˈʌpˈsteɪdʒ /

adverb

  1. on, at, or to the rear of the stage


adjective

  1. of or relating to the back half of the stage
  2. informal.
    haughty; supercilious; aloof

verb

  1. to move upstage of (another actor), thus forcing him to turn away from the audience
  2. informal.
    to draw attention to oneself from (someone else); steal the show from (someone)
  3. informal.
    to treat haughtily

noun

  1. the back half of the stage

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Word History and Origins

Origin of upstage1

First recorded in 1905–10; up- + stage

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Example Sentences

IBM’s announcement was also upstaged just a day later when startup QuEra came out of stealth and announced it had built a 256-qubit device.

Mirella Weingarten’s dramatic set design situates Khan on a parched, dusty hillside, rising upstage and draped ominously in lengths of rope.

The medium is ideal for such intensely hued drawings as “Feel the Heat,” which sets off a red-orange field with a thin ribbon of blue sky, and “Line of Cherries,” in which pink and purple blossoms upstage a band of green grass.

The rover will continue its journey around Jezero and is arguably being upstaged by its aerial buddy Ingenuity—a small helicopter that has now made 12 flights on Mars.

That visit came before his brother did the same, leading a Jordanian insider to tell Reuters Hamzah had upstaged the king.

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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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