Lift leg and put in the shade (7)
I believe the answer is:
upstage
'lift' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'leg and put in the shade' is the wordplay.
'leg' becomes 'stage' (synonyms).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'put in the shade' becomes 'up' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'stage' after 'up' is 'UPSTAGE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for upstage that I've seen before include "Be haughty towards" , "dwarf?" , "Outshine" , "Pugs eat (anag.)" , "Better" .)