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OUTSHINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: outshone   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attract more attention and praise than others

Example:

This film outshone all the others in quality

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "outshine" is one way to...):

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outshine"):

upstage (steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam cannot outshine Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shine brighter than

Example:

What star outshines the sun?

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "outshine" is one way to...):

beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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