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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)

  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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Questions about offstaging

What is offstaging the present participle and gerund of?
Offstaging is the present participle and gerund of offstage.

Words near offstaging in the dictionary

  1. offspringless
  2. offsprings
  3. offstage
  4. offstaged
  5. offstages
  6. offstaging
  7. offstand
  8. offstanding
  9. offstands
  10. offstood
  11. offstream

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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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