Synonyms for play up
play up

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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.

   Synonyms:
   act up

   Antonyms:
   play down

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. 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 up

   Antonyms:
   background, play down, downplay

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   play down, downplay, background

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1. Rickie Fowler:

   It's amazing, we obviously look at this as one of the biggest tournaments we play, up against the majors.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Roman Pilipey/Getty Images Herbst:

   Because the Russian military has been such a failure in Ukraine, it is helpful to explain this as a war with NATO rather than Ukraine. This also helps justify whatever steps Putin might take next, and Russia has been very keen to play up the idea that this might mean going nuclear.