portray
verb (used with object)
Origin of portray
Synonyms for portray
Synonym study
Related Words for portraying
depict, render, characterize, describe, paint, interpret, illustrate, delineate, picture, draw, figure, mimic, image, sketch, reproduce, duplicate, limn, simulate, impersonate, copyExamples from the Web for portraying
Contemporary Examples of portraying
Were you playing up or, on the flip side, shying away from portraying a romantic attraction?
Or one portraying the former KGB officer as a superhero surrounded by doves?
Do you feel they did an ample job of portraying his troubled later years—in particular, the violence towards women?
Octavia Spencer on Hollywood and Race: The Film Roles I’m Offered Are Too SmallMarlow Stern
July 31, 2014
What goes into portraying one of the most terrifying villains on TV?
OITNB’s New Villain Vee, Played By Lorraine Toussaint, Speaks for the First TimeKevin Fallon
June 13, 2014
This season has raised the bar on portraying psychotic breakdowns.
Historical Examples of portraying
He began by portraying in ardent language the sufferings he had undergone.
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus VasaPaul Barron Watson
"Those devouring eyes and that portraying hand," Emerson says.
Fresh FieldsJohn Burroughs
He saw that she was portraying what she had in her mind's eye.
The Red and the BlackStendhal
In this work his individual manner of portraying a face is entirely formed.
Auguste RodinRainer Maria Rilke
But they are useless from the point of view intended, as portraying a man.
The Christ MythArthur Drews