foreground (v)
highlight (v)
spotlight#1 (v)
play up (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 30
def move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
examples The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 11 Something ----s something
Outgoing links
Hypernym bring out, set off
Antonym play up → play down
Derivationally related form spotlight → spotlight
Derivationally related form highlight → highlighter; highlight → highlight; highlight → highlighter
Derivationally related form highlight → highlighting
Derivationally related form foreground → foreground
Antonym foreground → background
Incoming links
Derivationally related form highlighter → highlight; highlighter → highlight; highlight → highlight
Derivationally related form highlighting → highlight
Derivationally related form foreground → foreground
Derivationally related form spotlight → spotlight
Antonym play down → play up
Antonym background → foreground
Hyponym bring out, set off

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