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Synonyms for play up
play up
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foreground, highlight, spotlight, play upverb
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
Synonyms:
cozy up, sidle up, suck up, highlight, cotton up, spotlight, foreground, shine upAntonyms:
background, play down, downplaycozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck upverb
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
"She is playing up to the chairman"
Synonyms:
soak up, bootlick, sop up, cozy up, highlight, toady, draw, cotton up, shine up, absorb, take in, sidle up, kowtow, spotlight, suck, imbibe, truckle, take up, suck up, foreground, fawn, kotowAntonyms:
play down, downplay, background
Matched Categories
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#3350 | draw | |
#3373 | suck | |
#6031 | highlight | |
#6162 | spotlight | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#20450 | foreground | |
#30821 | fawn | |
#127434 | imbibe | |
#128894 | toady | |
#207328 | kowtow | |
#275633 | truckle |
How to use play up in a sentence?
We have to score, that’s why they are here and play up front. The most important thing now is we have almost 21 players fit.
It’s important to play up the racial hatred as the genesis of this crime so people are reminded what hate can really do in our society, people need to understand that hate is more than screaming at people and racial slurs. It kills.
They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.
French President Emmanuel Macron is a leader who is arguably at French President Emmanuel Macron best when French President Emmanuel Macron is fighting an enemy, post-Brexit, the incentive to play up minor conflicts with Read MoreWhen France is greater because it can no longer punish us inside the structures of the EU.
It's amazing, we obviously look at this as one of the biggest tournaments we play, up against the majors.
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