1. Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
   - foreground, highlight, spotlight 
2. Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behaviour
   "She is playing up to the chairman"
   - cozy up, cotton up, shine up, sidle up, suck up

Derived forms: plays up, played up, playing up

Type of: bring out, ingratiate, set off

Antonym: play down

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