outshine
/aʊtˈʃaɪn/
outshine verb: to shine brighter than something else.
Verb
outshine (third-person singular simple present outshines, present participle outshining, simple past and past participle outshone or outshined)
- To shine brighter than something else
- To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
- Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski's ball and stroke a low...2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- extinguish
- To shine forth, to give out light.
- Bright, outshining beams.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
outshine meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
outshine in Urdu
- بازی لے جانا, ماند کر دینا
outshine in Telugu
- to outshine, to excel
- గెలుచు gelucu
outshine in Malayalam
- eclipse, surpass, overshadow
- മറ്റുള്ളവരെക്കാൾ ശോഭിക്കുക, കൂടുതൽ തിളങ്ങുക, നിഷ്പ്രഭമാക്കുക, അതിശയിക്കുക, കവച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, മങ്ങിക്കുക
outshine in Kannada
- ಮೀರು, ಗೆಲ್ಲು, ಬೆಳಗು, ಜಯಗಳಿಸು, ಪ್ರಕಾಶಿಸು
Synonyms of outshine
Forms of outshine
| third-person singular present | outshines |
|---|---|
| present participle | outshining |
| past participle | outshone |
| past | outshone |
| past participle | outshined |
| past | outshined |
Origin of outshine
From out- + shine.
Words formed from outshine
Words that rhyme with outshine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- design
- divine
- combine
- pine
- spline
- swine
- consign
- frankenstein
- nine
- refine
- vine
- whine
- benign
- chine
- in line
- intertwine
- recline
- resign
- rine
- undermine
- wine
- affine
- anodyne
- dine
- gold mine
- incline
- malign
- opine
- propine
- red line
- shrine
- syne
- tine
- trunk line
- tyne
- atrine
- berine
- bine
- brine
- cline
- confine
- disentwine
- einstein
- equine
- offline
- quine
- repine
- rhine
Questions about outshine
- What does outshine mean?
- Outshine means to shine brighter than something else.
- What is outshine in Urdu?
- Outshine in Urdu is بازی لے جانا, ماند کر دینا. See Outshine meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is outshine?
- Outshine is a verb.
- How do you pronounce outshine?
- Outshine is pronounced /aʊtˈʃaɪn/.
- What is the past tense of outshine?
- The past tense of outshine is outshone.
Words near outshine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: outshine (page history and authors); outshine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గెలుచు (Telugu) (page history and authors); outshine (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); outshine (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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