overshadowverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈʃæd.əʊ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happy:
Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
My happiness was overshadowed by the bad news.
(of a building) to be much taller than another building and therefore block the sun from it:
Grand Central Station in New York is overshadowed by the PanAm building.
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Surpassing in quality or number
- beat
- catch
- catch up
- compare
- crown
- eclipse
- exceed
- go one better idiom
- leave sb standing idiom
- north
- outperform
- outran
- outrun
- outsell
- outshine
- outstrip
- tower above/over sth
- transcend
- upstage
- writ large idiom
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