Words that rhyme with downstage

• age 0
  n 1: how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" 2: an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" [syn: historic period, age] 3: a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld" [syn: age, eld] 4: a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn: long time, age, years] 5: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood] v 1: begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" 2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate] 3: make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" [ant: rejuvenate]
• assuage 0
  v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn: quench, slake, allay, assuage] 3: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" [syn: relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage]
• backstage 0
  adv 1: out of view of the public; behind the scenes; "Working backstage to gain political support for his proposal"; "many private deals were made backstage at the convention" 2: in or to a backstage area of a theater; "costumes were changed backstage" adj 1: concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings" [syn: offstage, backstage] n 1: a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing, offstage, backstage]
• cage 0
  n 1: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop] 2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement 3: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.] 4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey 5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage] v 1: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage, cage in]
• disengage 0
  v 1: release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles; "I want to disengage myself from his influence"; "disengage the gears" [syn: disengage, withdraw] [ant: engage, lock, mesh, operate] 2: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude] 3: become free; "in neutral, the gears disengage" [ant: engage]
• engage 0
  v 1: carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in; "She pursued many activities"; "They engaged in a discussion" [syn: prosecute, engage, pursue] 2: consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, engage, occupy] 3: engage or hire for work; "They hired two new secretaries in the department"; "How many people has she employed?" [syn: hire, engage, employ] [ant: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate] 4: ask to represent; of legal counsel; "I'm retaining a lawyer" 5: give to in marriage [syn: betroth, engage, affiance, plight] 6: get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" [ant: disengage] 7: carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage, wage] 8: hire for work or assistance; "engage aid, help, services, or support" [syn: engage, enlist] 9: engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take] 10: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw]
• enrage 0
  v 1: put into a rage; make violently angry
• gage 0
  n 1: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] 2: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage] v 1: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt]
• gauge 0
  n 1: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: gauge, gage] 2: accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared [syn: gauge, standard of measurement] 3: the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train 4: the thickness of wire 5: diameter of a tube or gun barrel [syn: bore, gauge, caliber, calibre] v 1: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge] 2: rub to a uniform size; "gauge bricks" 3: determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation; "gauge the wine barrels" 4: measure precisely and against a standard; "the wire is gauged" 5: adapt to a specified measurement; "gauge the instruments" 6: mix in specific proportions; "gauge plaster"
• multistage 0
  n 1: occurring in more than one stage
• offstage 0
  adv 1: behind the scenes; not on stage; "the actors were waiting offstage" [ant: onstage] 2: not in public; "the deal was done offstage" adj 1: situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience; "offstage noises" [ant: onstage] 2: concealed from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings" [syn: offstage, backstage] n 1: a stage area out of sight of the audience [syn: wing, offstage, backstage]
• onstage 0
  adv 1: on the stage; "it was time for her to go onstage" [ant: offstage] adj 1: situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience [ant: offstage]
• page 0
  n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains 2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: Page, Sir Frederick Handley Page] 3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) [syn: Page, Thomas Nelson Page] 4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: page, pageboy] 5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings 6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: page, varlet] v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system 2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer" 3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: foliate, paginate, page]
• phage 0
  n 1: a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria; "phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria" [syn: bacteriophage, phage]
• rage 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer" 3: something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" [syn: rage, passion] 4: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks" 5: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage] v 1: behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, rage, storm] 2: be violent; as of fires and storms 3: feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"
• sage 0
  adj 1: having wisdom that comes with age and experience 2: of the grey-green color of sage leaves [syn: sage, sage- green] n 1: a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom 2: aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc 3: any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb [syn: sage, salvia]
• stage 0
  n 1: any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected" [syn: phase, stage] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 3: a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box" 4: the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage" 5: a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles" [syn: stagecoach, stage] 6: a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise" [syn: stage, leg] 7: any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations" 8: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination [syn: stage, microscope stage] v 1: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" [syn: stage, present, represent] 2: plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion" [syn: stage, arrange]
• swage 0
  n 1: a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging [syn: upset, swage] v 1: form metals with a swage [syn: swage, upset]
• upstage 0
  adv 1: at or toward the rear of the stage; "the dancers were directed to move upstage" [ant: downstage] adj 1: of the back half of a stage; "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience" [ant: downstage] 2: remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" [syn: aloof, distant, upstage] n 1: the rear part of the stage v 1: treat snobbishly, put in one's place 2: move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience 3: steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else; "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
• wage 0
  n 1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary] v 1: carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); "Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe" [syn: engage, wage]
• paige 0
  n 1: United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982) [syn: Paige, Satchel Paige, Leroy Robert Paige]
• plage 0
  n 1: the beach at a seaside resort
• osage 0
  n 1: a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century 2: a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River [syn: Osage, Osage River] 3: the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage
• restage 0
• bethpage 0

See also downstage definition