outshine
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outshine (third-person singular simple present outshines, present participle outshining, simple past and past participle outshone or outshined)
- To shine brighter than something else
- To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
- 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner.
- (literary) To shine forth. The template Template:rfclarify does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.(clarification of this definition is needed)- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Bright, outshining beams.
Translations edit
to shine brighter than something else
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to exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
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(literary) to shine forth