make a performance of
● Amplify
● Overstate
● Exaggerate
● Execute
● Overdo
● Show
● Perform
● Splash
● Burlesque
● Produce
● Present
● Act
● Enact
● Stage
● Ham it up
● Play up
● Playact
● Farcialize
● Give color to
● Lay it on
● Make a production of
● Play on heartstrings
● Play to gallery
● Tragedize
● Stop
● Halt
● Neglect
● Fail
● Abandon
● Reduce
● Refrain
● Prevent
● Veto
● Refuse
● Ignore
● Melodramatizing