0 past simple and past participle of upstage
1 to take people's attention away from someone and make them listen to or look at you instead:
Most supporting bands tend to be youngsters, and rarely upstage the star.
Even here, it was upstaged by bright brash buildings of new image-conscious scientific industries.
In the meantime, world affairs upstaged regional planning.
One reason for this may have been that he had already been upstaged by a spectacular entrance that had taken place just a few days earlier.
We may well expect him to take further steps in future to prevent himself from being upstaged by his new colleague.
He has also comprehensively upstaged everybody who had a 30th wedding anniversary last year.
This version upstaged all the previous versions of the work.
It was upstaged by social history, with a race/class/gender model.
This type of sidekick is rarely encountered in fiction, because the hero runs the risk of being upstaged by them.
