offstage

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From off +‎ stage.

Adjective

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offstage (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
  2. Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity.

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offstage (not comparable)

  1. Taking place offstage (as above)

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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.
    • 2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan, page 94:
      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.