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.
Tyrone books a table at a fancy restaurant but is upstaged by a much flashier proposal before he can.
He criticized how the series overused the plot device of having characters grow seemingly untouchably powerful, only to be put out when eventually upstaged.
The ornamentation is a major constituent of the "hydriai", it is not upstaged by the figural motifs.
As the years pass, people appreciate him less and less, and he is eventually upstaged by dancers from the desert.
The actor had upstaged him or done something.
His eventual 1889 version upstaged all the previous versions of the work.
This type of sidekick is rarely encountered in fiction, because the hero runs the risk of being upstaged by them.
It was upstaged by social history, with a race/class/gender model.
