offstage
To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
Adjective
- Of or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
- Of or relating to the private life of a celebrity.
Origin
From off + stage.
Forms
Adverb
- Taking place offstage (as above).
Forms
Antonyms
Verb
- To relegate (part of a play) to the offstage area, rather than showing it to the audience.
- 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. - 2009, Rodney Edgecombe, Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin...