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Upstage   /əpstˈeɪdʒ/   Listen
Upstage

verb
1.
Treat snobbishly, put in one's place.
2.
Move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience.
3.
Steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else.
adjective
1.
Of the back half of a stage.
2.
Remote in manner.  Synonyms: aloof, distant.  "A distant smile" , "He was upstage with strangers"
adverb
1.
At or toward the rear of the stage.
noun
1.
The rear part of the stage.



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"Upstage" Quotes from Famous Books



... in woods, furnished with the old Sturtevant mahogany, came upon Bertram Chester like a stage setting as he entered with Mrs. Tiffany. Upstage, burned a driftwood fire in a low hearth of rough bricks; Judge Tiffany sat there, in a spindle-backed chair, reading. Across a space broken only by a painting, a Japanese print or so, and more spindle-backed ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin



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