Play and Upstage

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Play verb - To engage in activity for amusement.

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Upstage and play are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Upstage" instead a verb "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

Upstage verb - Steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else.

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Play and upstage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a verb "Upstage".

Nearby Words: upstaged, upstaging

Large Ham: Yang clearly wanted a much bigger role than the one she got in Ruby's play and so she tries her hardest to upstage everybody else.

Source: Web Animation / RWBY Chibi
The fame obsessed Booster Gold pulls a version of this in 52, hiring an actor to play a supervillain so he can save the day (and upstage a popular new hero who's getting all "his" good press, Supernova).

Source: Monster Protection Racket

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Upstage and Play. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 12, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/play/upstage

Play & Upstage. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/play/upstage>.

Upstage or Play. 2016. Accessed August 12, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/play/upstage.

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