Synonym: cotton up, cozy up, foreground, highlight, shine up, sidle up, spotlight, suck up. Similar words: lay up, pay up, stay up, play, replay, playoff, play off, play at. Meaning: v. 1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent 2. ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior.
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31. He tried to play down my part in the work and play up his own.
32. He seems to want two good actors to play up to him.
33. It seems sometimes that Mr Ostler, fascinated by ancient uses of language, wanted to write a different sort of book but was persuaded by his publisher to play up the English angle.
34. The flub appeared to play up Obama's inexperience, and the Republicans used the same interview to hammer Obama today, a sign of Clinton's increasing reliance on negative attacks.
35. The American joke is to play up to the European ( and Eastern ) legend of the West.
More similar words: lay up, pay up, stay up, play, replay, playoff, play off, play at, player, downplay, playful, playing, display, play down, play with, fair play, interplay, play along, play a part, plaything, playgroup, playfully, horseplay, on display, playground, screenplay, playacting, playwright, playschool, playfulness.