Meanings
present singular third person outshines · participle present outshining · participle past outshone · past outshone · participle past outshined · past outshined
- To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
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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.
2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The GuardianSynonyms: extinguish
- literaryTo shine forth, to give out light.
Bright, outshining beams.
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]
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Englishshine
- Englishoutshine
Translations
French dépasser
- dépasserto exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
German überstrahlen, überleuchten
- überstrahlento shine brighter than something else
- überleuchtento shine brighter than something else
- überstrahlento exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
- überleuchtento exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
- überragento exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
- übertreffento exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
Italian eclissare
- eclissareto exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
Portuguese ofuscar
- ofuscarto shine brighter than something else
Spanish deslumbrar, obcecar
- deslumbrarto shine brighter than something else
- obcecarto shine brighter than something else
Swedish överglänsa
- överglänsato exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
outshine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshine
“outshine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshine. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outshine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshine.
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