Portray
[pɔː'treɪ] or [pɔr'tre]
Definition
(verb.) portray in words; 'The book portrays the actor as a selfish person'.
(verb.) make a portrait of; 'Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba'.
(verb.) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; 'The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
(v. t.) To adorn with pictures.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Paint, delineate, depict, draw, sketch, represent.[2]. Describe, set forth.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Draw, delineate, represent, depict, describe, sketch, paint
ANT:Misrepresent, caricature, misportray
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Examples
- A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Pericles was portrayed in a helmet; a helmet became him, and it is to be feared he knew as much. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In 1844 Thomas Hood wrote and published his famous Song of the Shirt, in which the drudgery of the needle is portrayed with pathetic fidelity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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