Word: upstaged
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: up
staged
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of upstage; move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
Morphemes:
Affix: up-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Used to indicate higher position or direction, literally or figuratively.
Affix: stage
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: ester
Language: fr
Decoded: ester
PoS: Verb
Meaning: to appear
Affix: -age
Language: fr
Decoded: -age
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".
Affix: -d
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.