English Dictionary

upstage

/ʌpˈsteɪd͡ʒ/

verb

(figuratively, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage. / (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.

She always tries to upstage her co-stars on stage.

意味（1）

(figuratively, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.

She only wore that dress to upstage everyone.

意味（2）

(transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.

意味（3）

(transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.

意味（4）

(medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.

Almost one-third of patients were upstaged after re-exploration, three-quarters of whom actually had stage III disease.