Other forms: outshone, outshines, outshined, outshining
To outshine is to be so much better that others are put in the shade. Outshine the rest.
The out- means beyond, as in outrun and outlast. To outshine somebody is not deliberate, which is what separates it from showing off.
1verboutshineTo be so much better that others are put in the shade.
“The support act managed to outshine everybody who followed.”
outshine is a surpassing.
Proto-Germanic
*skīnaną — to shine
Proto-West Germanic
*skīnan — to shine
Old English
sċīnan
Middle English
shinen
English
shine
English, today
outshine
From out- + shine. shine comes from Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan “to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen, from Proto-West Germanic skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic skīnaną (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA