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1. play upverb

   Antonyms:
   play down

2. play upverb

   To misbehave

   Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up.

   Antonyms:
   play down

   Synonyms:
   act up

3. play upverb

   For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach.

   Antonyms:
   play down

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1. • Bring Out
   • Ingratiate

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1. 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"

   Antonyms:
   background, play down, downplay

   Synonyms:
   cozy up, sidle up, suck up, highlight, cotton up, spotlight, foreground, shine up

2. cozy 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"

   Antonyms:
   play down, downplay, background

   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, kotow

How to use play up in a sentence?

1. Rob Ford:

   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.

2. Doug Jones:

   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.

3. Read MoreIf McGregor:

   It used to irritate me the way certain narratives are spread and the way words are twisted, I had to just disengage from it, when I came into the game, it used to happen and I'd just laugh it off and play up to it and do my thing. Then it just kept up going on, on, and on. It got a little much and I reacted to disrespect. But no more.

4. Gabriel Jesus:

   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.

5. Architect Carson Arthur:

   When you enclose a small space even more, you play up its coziness and make it intimate, something that’s hard to achieve with large spaces, this also takes it to the next level of feeling like an outdoor room.

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