From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoutshineout‧shine /aʊtˈʃaɪn/ verb (past tense and past participle outshone /aʊtˈʃɒn $ -ˈʃoʊn/) [transitive] BETTERto be better or more impressive than someone or something else Several new players outshone the veterans.→ See Verb table
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outshine• But she was definitely outshone by the peacock colours and silky materials of her companions.• Charest outshone Campbell with his performance in five televised debates during the campaign.• But he has to go some to outshine Dean Richards, dropped for the second time in a year.• The young Japanese violinist outshone every other musician at the concert.• Kelly was outstanding and outshone every other player on the field.• It was equally important to outshine everyone else around me - in other words, to achieve at the expense of others.• His fielding has outshone his power in this series, but his forbearance beats both.• It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.• Stone effortlessly outshines the other members of the cast.• In this respect, at least, John Eliot Gardiner's recording on Archiv far outshines the present one. 