Synonyms for Play up:

• n.

  •
  • hurt,
  • ache,
  • trouble,
  • stifle,
  • torment,
  • bother,
  • suffer,
  • pound.
  •
  • inflate,
  • exaggerate,
  • magnify.
  •act up (noun)
  • act.
  •cotton up (noun)
  • cotton up.
  •cozy up (noun)
  • cozy up.
  •foreground (noun)
  • foreground.
  •play up (noun)
  • sidle up,
  • suck up,
  • shine up,
  • spotlight.

• v.

  •dramatize (verb)
  • over did,
  • tragedizing,
  • pro-duces,
  • melodramatizes,
  • played gallery,
  • laid it on,
  • playing heartstrings,
  • pre-sents,
  • playing on heartstrings,
  • over doing,
  • over-doing,
  • giving color to,
  • played on heartstrings,
  • tragedized,
  • over-did,
  • playing gallery,
  • pro duce,
  • pre sent,
  • plays on heartstrings,
  • farcialized,
  • plays gallery,
  • gives color to,
  • melodramatized,
  • tragedizes,
  • made a production of,
  • played heartstrings,
  • over-does,
  • farcializes,
  • over done,
  • farcializing,
  • makes a production of,
  • played to gallery,
  • make production of,
  • making production of,
  • pre-sent,
  • gave color to,
  • playing to gallery,
  • plays to gallery,
  • play gallery,
  • making a production of,
  • play heartstrings,
  • melodramatizing,
  • makes production of,
  • over does,
  • plays heartstrings,
  • lays it on,
  • pro duces,
  • made production of,
  • laying it on.
  •embroider (verb)
  • dis-tended,
  • blow ups,
  • blow upping,
  • over emphasizes,
  • over elaborates,
  • spreads on thick,
  • spread thick,
  • made federal case,
  • over embellishes,
  • over-embellishing,
  • make mountain out molehill,
  • blowupping,
  • co loring,
  • over-estimating,
  • stretching the truth,
  • blow-ups,
  • overelaborating,
  • over emphasized,
  • blow-upped,
  • overembellishing,
  • over emphasizing,
  • overembellishes,
  • over-emphasized,
  • over estimating,
  • making mountain out molehill,
  • over emphasize,
  • dis tend,
  • over-emphasizes,
  • over-elaborating,
  • made mountain out molehill,
  • over estimated,
  • stretches truth,
  • stretched truth,
  • over-embellishes,
  • spreading on thick,
  • over-elaborates,
  • stretched the truth,
  • making mountain out of molehill,
  • over-elaborate,
  • blow-upping,
  • makes mountain out of molehill,
  • dis-tends,
  • spreading thick,
  • dis-tend,
  • blowupped,
  • over elaborated,
  • over-elaborated,
  • over embellishing,
  • over-estimates,
  • spreads thick,
  • over embellish,
  • dis tends,
  • makes mountain out molehill,
  • over embellished,
  • made mountain out of molehill,
  • dis tending,
  • dis tended,
  • over elaborate,
  • blow upped,
  • overembellished,
  • overelaborates,
  • over elaborating,
  • over-estimated,
  • stretch truth,
  • stretching truth,
  • over-embellish,
  • making federal case,
  • over-emphasizing,
  • co-loring,
  • makes federal case,
  • dis-tending,
  • over estimates,
  • over estimate,
  • stretches the truth.
  •emphasize (verb)
  • bring to the fore,
  • highlight,
  • turn spotlight on.
  •feature (verb)
  • calls attention to,
  • pro-motes,
  • sets off,
  • called attention to,
  • pro moting,
  • pro-moting,
  • makes conspicuous,
  • making conspicuous,
  • made conspicuous,
  • pro-mote.
  •overstate (verb)
  • mis represents,
  • over state,
  • laid it thick,
  • mis-reported,
  • blowing out proportion,
  • blowing out of proportion,
  • mis-quote,
  • laying it thick,
  • mis-representing,
  • mis quote,
  • mis representing,
  • lay it thick,
  • over stated,
  • mis-quoting,
  • lay thick,
  • misreports,
  • mis quoted,
  • mis quoting,
  • mis reports,
  • mis quotes,
  • lays it on thick,
  • blew out of proportion,
  • over-stated,
  • laid thick,
  • laying on thick,
  • mis reported,
  • lays thick,
  • mis represented,
  • over stating,
  • mis-quoted,
  • blows out of proportion,
  • over states,
  • blew out proportion,
  • mis report,
  • mis-represent,
  • mis-represented,
  • mis-reports,
  • mis-reporting,
  • mis represent,
  • mis-represents,
  • mis-quotes,
  • over-stating,
  • blow out proportion,
  • mis reporting,
  • lays it thick,
  • laying thick,
  • laid it on thick,
  • over-states,
  • lays on thick,
  • over-state,
  • blows out proportion.
  •publicize (verb)
  • press agented,
  • press-agented,
  • ex-tolling,
  • put map,
  • pressagented,
  • writes up,
  • pressagent,
  • hard selling,
  • puts map,
  • putting on map,
  • putting on the map,
  • press agenting,
  • billboarded,
  • softsells,
  • hyping,
  • made a pitch for,
  • pressagents,
  • put on map,
  • soft-sold,
  • hard sold,
  • writing up,
  • making pitch for,
  • wrote up,
  • press-agenting,
  • softselling,
  • putting the map,
  • press-agents,
  • ex-tolled,
  • puts the map,
  • puts on map,
  • made pitch for,
  • skywritten,
  • billboarding,
  • ex tolling,
  • makes a pitch for,
  • make pitch for,
  • writ up,
  • ex tolled,
  • skywrote,
  • pressagenting,
  • putting map,
  • softsold,
  • soft sold,
  • put the map,
  • makes pitch for,
  • soft-selling,
  • making a pitch for,
  • softsell,
  • soft selling,
  • soft-sells,
  • puts on the map,
  • skywrites.
  •stress (verb)
  • be labors,
  • be laboring,
  • laid emphasis on,
  • be-labor,
  • be labored,
  • be-laboring,
  • lays emphasis on,
  • be-labored,
  • laying emphasis on,
  • be labor,
  • be-labors.
  •underline (verb)
  • under lining,
  • gives emphasis,
  • drew attention to,
  • inter lineate,
  • under-lined,
  • giving emphasis,
  • gave emphasis,
  • points to,
  • under-line,
  • interlineated,
  • under lines,
  • draws attention to,
  • under-lines,
  • interlineates,
  • under lined,
  • inter-lineated,
  • under line,
  • inter lineated,
  • interlineating,
  • inter-lineate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • idealise,
  • dignify,
  • glorified,
  • Oversell,
  • overplay,
  • sensationalize,
  • glamorize,
  • overemphasis,
  • talk up,
  • idealize,
  • romanticize,
  • overstatement.
  •
  • exaggerated,
  • accentuate,
  • overvalue,
  • build up,
  • rose-colored,
  • underscore,
  • glorify.
  •
  • inflated,
  • sensational,
  • dress up,
  • precious.
  •
  • accent.
  •
  • romance.
  •
  • spin.
  •
  • point.
  •dramatize
  • lay it on,
  • farcialize,
  • laid on,
  • melodramatize,
  • lay on,
  • lays on,
  • playact,
  • give color to,
  • tragedize,
  • make a production of,
  • overdo,
  • Burlesqued,
  • Burlesquing,
  • laying on,
  • play on heartstrings,
  • play to gallery,
  • ham up.
  •overstatement
  • exaggeration.
  •publicize
  • Immortalized,
  • put on the map,
  • hard sell,
  • write up,
  • skywriting,
  • soft-sell,
  • make a pitch for,
  • skywrite,
  • press-agent.
  •Other relevant words:
  • exertion,
  • freedom,
  • color,
  • latitude,
  • hype,
  • Elbowroom,
  • headline,
  • disport,
  • mark,
  • paint,
  • point out,
  • fool around,
  • act up,
  • usage,
  • dramatise,
  • elaborate,
  • implementation,
  • leeway,
  • sport,
  • diversion,
  • Extravagate,
  • exercise,
  • behave badly,
  • fun,
  • stretch,
  • present,
  • game,
  • carry,
  • overdraw,
  • misbehave,
  • embellish,
  • puff up,
  • advertise,
  • bring out,
  • employment,
  • emphasise,
  • utilization,
  • application,
  • recreation,
  • hyperbolize,
  • overstress,
  • use,
  • scope,
  • margin,
  • enlarge,
  • pile it on,
  • exalt,
  • star,
  • room,
  • splash,
  • operation,
  • promote.

Antonyms for Play up:

• v.

  • emphasize
    underrate, deemphasize, play down, undervalue.
  • Other antonyms:
    discount, minimize, background, de-emphasize, belittle, understate, disparage, tone, downplay.