Verb play up has 2 senses
- foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up - move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
--1 is one way to bring out, set off
Antonyms: background, play down, downplay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- cozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck up - ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman"
--2 is one way to ingratiate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
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