Usually means: Eclipsed by another's superior performance.
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  1. upstaged: Merriam-Webster
  2. upstaged: Collins English Dictionary
  3. upstaged: Vocabulary.com
  4. Upstaged, upstaged: Wordnik
  5. upstaged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. upstaged: Wiktionary
  7. upstaged: Dictionary.com
  8. upstaged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. upstaged: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (upstage)

noun:  (theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
adverb:  Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
adverb:  Away from the audience or camera.
adjective:  At the rear of a stage.
adjective:  (figurative, obsolete) Haughty, aloof.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
verb:  (transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.
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