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playsnounpl. of play a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stagewe'll be putting on a school play using that stage dramas, dramatizations interludes, playletscomedies, comedy dramas, docudramas, dramedies, melodramas, monodramas, musical comedies, musicals, psychodramas, tragedies, tragicomediesmagnum opuses, opera(also opuses), worksadaptations the act or practice of employing something for a particular purposethe host's sense of humor was obviously in play during the awards ceremony applications, employments, exercises, operations, usages, uses exertionsreuses disuses, nonuses a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endthe guy at the bar made an unusually creative play to get her phone number artifices, devices, dodges, fetches, flimflams, gambits, gimmicks, jigs, juggles, knacks, ploys, ruses, schemes, shenanigans, sleights, stratagems, tricks, wiles bluffs, end runs, feintschicaneries, cozenages, crafts, crookeries, cunnings, deceptions, duperies, duplicities, fakeries, juggleries, legerdemains, skulduggeries(or skullduggeries), subterfuges, trickeriesfrauds, gaffs, hoaxes, shams, swindlesblinds, fronts, smoke screens sleights of hand to engage in activity for amusementtold her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work dallies, disports, frolics, recreates, rollicks, skylarks, sports, toys cavorts, frisks, gambols, rompsdabbles, triflesamuses, diverts, entertainsdelights, pleasesdabbles, fiddles (around), messes around, putters (around)bums (around), dawdles, goldbricks, hangs, hangs about(British), idles, loafs, lounges (around or about), relaxes, rests, screws around, slacks (off)jests, jokes, teases drudges, labors, plods, plugs (away), slaves, strains, strives, struggles, sweats, toils, works to present a portrayal or performance ofplayed Hamlet in the campus production of the classic acts, does, impersonates, interprets, performs, portrays depicts, dramatizes, renders, representsacts out, enacts, pantomimes, playacts, role-plays, takes onoveracts, overplays, underplaysapes, clowns, hams, imitates, masquerades, mimes, mimics, poses (as)stars (in)coacts, costars to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behaviorstop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank acts, impersonates, masquerades (as), personates, poses (as) apes, copies, imitates, mimes, mimics, mocks, monkeys, parodies, travestiesperforms, portrays to spend time in aimless activityjust played around while we waited for the bus to arrive doodles, fiddles (around), fools around, fribbles, goofs (around), hangs about(British), kicks around, messes around, monkeys (around), potters (around), putters (around), trifles dallies, dawdles, dillydallies, hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, loungesclowns (around), horses arounddiddles (with), tinkers buckles (down), knuckles down, sets (to), settles (down) to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlythis is how we're going to play the situation addresses, contends (with), copes (with), fields, grapples (with), hacks, handles, manages, maneuvers, manipulates, negotiates, swings, takes, treats engineers, finesses, jockeysbrings off, carries off, carries out, gets off, pullscommands, directs, guides, steerscontrols, micromanages, regulates, runsreacts (to), responds (to) comes to grips with, has a grip on botches, bungles, foozles, fumbles, goofs (up), louses up, messes (up), mishandles, muffs, scamps to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain eventfiguring that she had little to lose, she played her last few bucks on the state lottery bets, gambles, goes, lays, puts, stakes, wagers bids, offersadventures, chances, hazards, speculates, venturesendangers, imperils, jeopardizes |