upstaging

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Verb

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upstaging

  1. present participle and gerund of upstage

Noun

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upstaging (plural upstagings)

  1. A situation where somebody or something is upstaged; thus:
    1. (theater, also figurative) A stealing of the spotlight, as (or as if) one performer eclipses another in the audience's attention.
    2. (medicine, surgery, oncology) An increase in the stage of a case of a disease (usually a cancer), from a less-threatening to a more-threatening stage.
      Hypernym: restaging
      Antonym: downstaging