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US
/pɔɹˈtɹeɪ/
]
[ UK /pɔːtɹˈeɪ/ ]
[ UK /pɔːtɹˈeɪ/ ]
VERB
-
assume or act the character of
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
She impersonates Madonna -
represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting -
portray in words
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person -
make a portrait of
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
How To Use portray In A Sentence
- Richard Harris delivers a riveting portrayal of Captain Tyreen.
- While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
- The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kids' party to well mannered socialites.
- Yogurt manufacturers, for example, portray fit, lively people, glowing with health.
- Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
- Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
- She frowned and stamped her feet to portray anger, eg in a mime.
- Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
- Some of the characters do not yet have pictures to portray them.
- In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot".
