OUTSHINE (outshone)

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Irregular inflected form: outshone   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does outshine mean? 

• OUTSHINE (verb)
  The verb OUTSHINE has 2 senses:

1. shine brighter than

2. attract more attention and praise than others

  Familiarity information: OUTSHINE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTSHINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outshine    ... he / she / it outshines   
Past simple: outshone   
Past participle: outshone   
-ing form: outshining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shine brighter than

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

What star outshines the sun?

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attract more attention and praise than others

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

This film outshone all the others in quality

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

 Context examples 

The star collapses, and then explodes as a supernova (supernovas can outshine the galaxies in which they reside).

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At its peak, a supernova can outshine the entire Milky Way.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

These violent events can briefly produce enough visible light to outshine entire galaxies consisting of billions of stars.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)