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parlaying

verb , present participle of parlay

Synonyms and Antonyms of parlaying

to use or develop (something) to get something else that has greater value

He hoped to parlay his basketball skills into a college scholarship.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of parlaying

accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping

booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spiking

bumping (up), ratcheting (up) also racheting (up)

blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating

drawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretching

developing, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying

complementing, supplementing

beefing (up), reinforcing (also reenforcing), strengthening

accumulating, amassing, collecting

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of parlaying

abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shortening

compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting

cutting back, retrenching

abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from)

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