All playact synonyms

verb playact

• make as if — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• double as — To be able to be used for a secondary function.
• dittoed — the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
• ditto — the aforesaid; the above; the same (used in accounts, lists, etc., to avoid repetition). Symbol: ″. Abbreviation: do. Compare ditto mark.
• cribbing — the action of one that cribs
• dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
• lay on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
• melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
• ham up — an actor or performer who overacts.
• lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
• bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
• lay an egg — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• gloss over — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
• act out — If you act out an event which has happened, you copy the actions which took place and make them into a play.
• enact — Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
• make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• hammed — an actor or performer who overacts.
• lay it on — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• do — Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
• impersonate — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
• hamming — an actor or performer who overacts.