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upstage

verb as in steal the show

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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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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to upstage, such as: overshadow, draw attention from, and go one better.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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