upstaging
Meanings
verb
- present participle and gerund of upstage
noun
- A situation where somebody or something is upstaged; thus:
- A stealing of the spotlight, as (or as if) one performer eclipses another in the audience's attention.
- An increase in the stage of a case of a disease (usually a cancer), from a less-threatening to a more-threatening stage.
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