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play up


verb
1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent (Freq. 1)
- The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics
Syn:
foreground, highlight, spotlight
Ant:
play down, background (for: foreground)
Derivationally related forms:
spotlight (for: spotlight), highlighter (for: highlight), highlight (for: highlight), highlighting (for: highlight), foreground (for: foreground)
Hypernyms:
bring out, set off
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. ingratiate oneself to;
often with insincere behavior
- She is playing up to the chairman
Syn:
cozy up, cotton up, shine up, sidle up, suck up
Hypernyms:
ingratiate
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP


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