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portrayed

[pawr-trey, pohr-]

verb (used with object)

to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.

to depict in words; describe graphically.

to represent dramatically, as on the stage: He portrayed Napoleon in the play.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English portrayen < Middle French portraire < Late Latin prōtrahere to depict, Latin: to draw forth, equivalent to prō- pro-¹ + trahere to draw

Related forms

por·tray·a·ble, adjective

por·tray·er, noun

non·por·tray·a·ble, adjective

pre·por·tray, verb (used with object)

un·por·tray·a·ble, adjective

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un·por·trayed, adjective

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Synonyms
1, 2. picture, delineate, limn. See depict.

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Example Sentences

They also said that the way the invention was described in court was different from how it was portrayed in the patent.

Nazarbaev is not as popular as being portrayed here.

Santa's reindeer are always portrayed as having antlers.

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They also said that the way the invention was described in court was different from how it was portrayed in the patent.

Nazarbaev is not as popular as being portrayed here.

Santa's reindeer are always portrayed as having antlers.

Amer here, as it is important that these issues be portrayed accurately.

Our precious earth portrayed in all its splenderA momentary pause of emotion.

One ad portrayed a well-dressed marksman firing at a target in his living room fireplace while a dog lounged at his feet.

The tigers are sometimes portrayed as paragons of free-market policies.

But the relief effort is moving more smoothly and efficiently than has been portrayed in news reports, he said.

They never have liked how they were portrayed on the pyramid.

Still others believed the media portrayed the crowd's reaction as more hostile than it truly was.

But not everyone agrees with the history portrayed in the site.

The presidential visit was portrayed as putting the icing on the cake of dialogue.

Shark experts charge that sharks are unfairly portrayed in the media as aggressive hunters of humans.

People who have visited have verified that the image of healthy happy animals portrayed on his website is accurate.

On this one, coagulating splotches of red portrayed an additional network.

The couple in turn portrayed themselves as the hapless casualties of a nasty press war.

Too often science is portrayed as boring, dry, and almost condescending.

Such is the atmospherically vanilla world portrayed by conventional climate models.

Jobs has been portrayed as a man of art and culture.

The software doesn't usually work the way it is portrayed with the exams.

He portrayed himself as a tribal elder in a red bobble hat who was going to clean up politics and improve people's lives.

Alabama in this location at the time would have been part of the site of the immediate effects of the impact as portrayed.

Short sellers are rarely the mischiefmakers they are portrayed to be.

It's not whether or not the planet's getting warmer, it's the way it's being portrayed.

Some viewers have objected to the less than reverential way in which he is portrayed.

India is often portrayed as an elephant: big, lumbering and slow off the mark.

Men are often portrayed as big boys, differing from their younger selves only in the sums of money they spend on their toys.

Scandals raise larger issues about how diversity is portrayed.

More than that, she knows that unions have been portrayed as the enemy of educational.

Historically portrayed as dim-witted and brutish, it made perfect sense to scholars of yore that these.

It is one of the symbolic images of the era portrayed as depicting how unrealistic television was back then.

Hume, alas, was portrayed in the dark age of pre-photography.

Police officers at first portrayed the shoot-out as a heroic victory by lawmen over the lawless.

Jesus was portrayed by a young man with a beard painted on his chin.

Strangelove, scientists are portrayed as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics and usually bent on world domination.

They painstakingly portrayed fair damsels and brave knights.

They also portrayed his legal philosophy as extreme and activist.

What worries me in some of these debates is that student-loan debt of any amount is portrayed as the villain.

Newspapers indignantly portrayed him as a martinet who had made himself prime minister in all but name.

The pirates portrayed in the movies are usually heartless, swashbuckling, and usually sport an eye patch.

Arango portrayed a group of nuns circling a caged bird, a cardinal.

She is being portrayed by the press as the embodiment of whackdom and/or evil.

The article would have benefitted from a summary map of the locations you portrayed.

There was no figure the imagination could not find portrayed by these instantaneous flashes.

If disciplines are not the suffocating cloisters their critics have portrayed them to be, what about the other side of the coin:.

The payroll-tax cut may well not expire in a year's time: it will be portrayed as a tax increase when unemployment is still high.

Only that they are not the dangerous killers portrayed by activists in the media.

In addition not al moderate to severely depressed persons are seen as portrayed in this article.

There was no figure the imagination could not find portrayed by these instantaneous.

Too often the military is portrayed insensitively on college.

The music that is at the heart of this movement was only portrayed as a venue for gang violence.

Aliens are often portrayed as powerful beings coming down from on high to warn us of our impending self-destruction.

Making officials more honest is portrayed as vital to this endeavour.

Many of us have seen that sphere-usually portrayed from the outside in-in maps produced by space-based microwave observatories.

Today, a movie scientist is much more likely to be portrayed as a hero who saves the planet and.

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Word Origin & History

portray

c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. purtraire, O.Fr. portraire "to draw, to paint, portray" (12c.), lit. "trace, draw forth," from por- "forth" (from L. pro-) + traire "trace, draw," from L. trahere "to drag, draw" (see tract (1)).

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