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Meaning of word play up from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

play up verb

Meaning : Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent.

Example : The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics.

Synonyms : foreground, highlight, spotlight

Understate the importance or quality of.

He played down his royal ancestry.
background, downplay, play down

Meaning : Ingratiate oneself to. Often with insincere behavior.

Example : She is playing up to the chairman.

Synonyms : cotton up, cozy up, shine up, sidle up, suck up

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Get stuck while doing something.

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A feeling of delight at being entertained.

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Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes.

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A member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language.

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Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes.

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Cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes.

performance (noun)
A dramatic or musical entertainment.

wick (noun)
Any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action.

deep (noun)
The central and most intense or profound part.

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