ingratiate vs play up

ingratiate and play up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ingratiate	No	No	Yes	No
play up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, play up is a hyponym of ingratiate; that is, play up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ingratiate:

Other hyponyms of ingratiate include cotton up, cozy up, shine up, sidle up, suck up.

ingratiate (verb)	play up (verb)
gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts	move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
	ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior