playing up

Main Entry:	play up
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	emphasize
Synonyms:	accentuate, bring to the fore, call attention to, feature, highlight, italicize, magnify, make a production of, point up, stress, turn spotlight on, underline, underscore
Antonyms:	deemphasize, play down, underrate, undervalue

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Main Entry:	embroider
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	exaggerate information
Synonyms:	aggrandize, amplify, blow-up, build up, color, distend, dramatize, elaborate, embellish, enhance, enlarge, expand, falsify, fudge, heighten, hyperbolize, lie, magnify, make federal case, make mountain out of molehill, overdo, overelaborate, overembellish, overemphasize, overestimate, overstate, pad, play up, puff, romanticize, spread on thick, stretch, stretch the truth, yeast

Main Entry:	emphasize
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	stress, give priority to
Synonyms:	accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, headline, highlight, hit, impress, indicate, insist on, italicize, labor the point, limelight, maintain, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, mark, pinpoint, play up, point out, point up, press, pronounce, punctuate, put accent on, reiterate, repeat, rub in, spotlight*, underline, underscore, weight
Antonyms:	depreciate, forget, ignore, play down, understate

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	feature
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	give prominence to
Synonyms:	accentuate, advertise, blaze, call attention to, emphasize, headline, italicize, make conspicuous, mark, play up, point up, present, promote, set off, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore
Notes:	the opener comes first in a three-comic show, followed by the feature, followed by the headliner
Antonyms:	disregard, ignore

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	overstate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	exaggerate
Synonyms:	amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, embellish, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, fudge, heighten, hike, inflate, lay it on thick, lie, magnify, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, play up, puff

Main Entry:	publicize
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make widely known; promote
Synonyms:	advance, advertise, announce, bill, billboard, boost, broadcast, build up, cry, drum, extol, hard sell, headline, hype, immortalize, make a pitch for, pitch, play up, plug, press-agent, promulgate, propagandize, puff, push, put on the map, skywrite, soft-sell, splash, spot, spotlight, spread, tout, trumpet, write up
Antonyms:	conceal, hide, secret

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	stress
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	accentuate, emphasize
Synonyms:	accent, belabor, dwell on, feature, harp on, headline, italicize, lay emphasis on, make emphatic, play up, point up, repeat, rub in, spot, spotlight, underline, underscore
Antonyms:	attenuate, reduce, relax

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	underline
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	emphasize; mark
Synonyms:	accentuate, bracket, call attention to, caption, check off, draw attention to, feature, give emphasis, highlight, indicate, interlineate, italicize, play up, point to, point up, rule, stress, underscore

Main Entry:	italicize
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	emphasize
Synonyms:	accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, feature, headline, highlight, hit, impress, indicate, insist on, labor the point, limelight, maintain, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, mark, pinpoint, play up, point out, point up, press, pronounce, punctuate, put accent on, reiterate, repeat, rub in, spotlight, stress, underline, underscore, weight

* = informal/non-formal usage
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