Color and Play up

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Color verb - To add to the interest of by including made-up details.

Usage example: he gave a highly colored version of a rather mundane experience

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Play up and color are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play up" instead a verb "Color".

Nearby Words: colour, colorful, colored, colorless, coloured

Play up verb - To indicate the importance of by centering attention on.

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Color and play up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Color" instead a verb "Play up".

Some productions play up the Americans as white and the Russians as black (with implications that this color scheme is about the extent of the difference), The Chessmaster: Molokov and Walter.

Source: Theatre / Chess

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