offstages

Verb

offstage (third-person singular simple present offstages, present participle offstaging, simple past and past participle offstaged)

1. (transitive) To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
   • A boy has just murdered another one year older than himself, but Morgan offstages the event as a nuntius would the horrors of Greek tragedy.2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94

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