offstaging
offstaging is the present participle and gerund of offstage.
Meaning of offstage
Verb
offstage (third-person singular simple present offstages, present participle offstaging, simple past and past participle offstaged)
- 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
Questions about offstaging
- What is offstaging the present participle and gerund of?
- Offstaging is the present participle and gerund of offstage.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: offstaging (page history and authors); offstage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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