outshine
to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
to surpass in splendor, ability, achievement, excellence, etc.: a product that outshone all competitors; to outshine one's classmates.
to shine out or forth: a small light outshining in the darkness.
Origin of outshine
1Words Nearby outshine
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use outshine in a sentence
This is where a console game like Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 far outshines simpler, less feature-rich mobile games.
Go big, but don’t go home with the best Nintendo Switch games when out and about | Billy Cadden | July 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWhile undeveloped forest is clearly best for biodiversity, shade-grown plantations can outshine other land uses.
Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate | Jonathan Lambert | July 14, 2021 | Science NewsOn September 29, police from five countries—the US, the UK, Ukraine, Russia, and the Netherlands—would simultaneously arrest dozens of suspects in an operation that promised to outshine all cybercrime investigations before it.
Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation | Patrick Howell O'Neill | July 8, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewGarcia could follow the trajectory of Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren, two other accomplished women full of plans and policies who were nonetheless outshone by more politically palatable men when they ran for the top job.
A Woman Has Never Run New York City. Can Kathryn Garcia Change That? | Charlotte Alter | May 27, 2021 | TimeBecause of its first-party data, and because of the high demand for user purchase data, it is poised to outshine its competitors in the ad world in the coming years.
As privacy changes loom, Amazon stands to reap the greatest reward | Michael Waters | April 6, 2021 | Digiday
While some parodies end up major flops, the ones that get it right can sometimes outshine their mainstream rivals.
The Art of Smutty Spoofs: Porn Parodies Aren’t a Joke Anymore | Aurora Snow | March 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSome followers have even hinted that “good divorces” outshine mediocre marriages.
Consequently, I opined that it would be no difficult achievement to outshine all my schoolfellows.
In the full blaze of day came a meteor that swept to the earth in an arc of fire to outshine the sun.
Women might in many departments of labour be equal to, or outshine men, but they will not take the trouble.
In grace and manly beauty, in his qualities of heart and intellect, contemporaries held him to outshine Trajan.
The Walls of Constantinople | Bernard Granville BakerHe was doubtless trying to outshine him, and for that reason he even got his clothes from the same tailor in Nice.
The Enemies of Women | Vicente Blasco Ibez
British Dictionary definitions for outshine
/ (ˌaʊtˈʃaɪn) /
(tr) to shine more brightly than
(tr) to surpass in excellence, beauty, wit, etc
(intr) rare to emit light
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse