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play up

 
Verb play up has 2 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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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