English | German | Russian | Czech
Englishfor English speakers
Englishas a second language
B2

portray English

Meaning portray meaning

What does portray mean?
Definitions in simple English

portray Verb

— When you portray something, you create a picture of it by painting or drawing. — When you portray something, you are trying to describe and explain it in words so that you can convey it to other people. The witness was at the police station and trying to portray what he saw during the accident. — When someone portrays a character, the person is acting as the character. He managed to portray Shakespeare in a very interesting way and the audience really liked it. — When you portray something, you decorate it with pictures.

portray

— 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 (= impersonate) assume or act the character of She impersonates Madonna The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man — verb represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting

Synonyms portray synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as portray?

portray English » English

depict describe paint represent picture draw sketch delineate show limn impersonate act portrait characterize shoot present plot play pencil illustrate film typify trace take back take symbolize stand for stand stage speak scold run roleplay revive retake resume reproduce reprimand representation regain reflect recreate recall qualify profile pretend pick up perform mean mark

Topics portray topics

What do people use portray to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Describe
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject
Social behavior Social activity

Drama

Conjugation portray conjugation

How do you conjugate portray?

portray · verb

Examples portray examples

How do I use portray in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I ask my viewer to understand that in the following I let the same actress portray many different patients of related nervous disorders.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, the, uh. the first musical, uh, number that we intend to portray. will be the, uh, beginning and the ending of a very.
I understand from Mr. Kane here that you wanted to know if I'd be willing. to portray the beachcomber in this thing.
My boy, if I appeared to the living the way they portray me, they would recognize me, and that wouldn't make our task easy.
What does it portray?
The way. one generally, or women generally portray men, is not correct. It's not true.
It's strange it seems the secret of acting is to portray strength, yet one is weak.
As an actor I'm obliged to live in my country, to observe and portray it.
He rewrote history to portray his predecessor, Richard III, as a deformed maniac who killed his nephews in the Tower.
Clever attorneys portray Lita Fox as an abandoned woman.
He tried to portray a different picture, but he was extremely shrewd.
The french always portray her as an old hag, which I think is wrong.
And he was very, very adamant that he didn't wanna portray himself that way.
What I can't understand, sir is why do Hindi films portray gangsters and villains as stupid and morons?
But He's really the most beautiful body that ever was. so that's how I try to portray Him.
Y et, your eyes ar e so kind, your handshake so soft. lt's strange it seems the secr et of acting is to portray str ength, yet one is weak.
The ideal actr ess to portray the ideal German woman.
Clever attorneys portray Lita Fox as an abandoned woman. The child is neglected, poor and fatherless.
Native Americans were enlisted to portray the area's earliest known human inhabitants.
You portray yourself as a victim. A martyr.
And things aren't quite as you portray them.
Bela Lugosi will portray Dr. Eric Vornoff.
I only hope I can portray Serial Mom's life on the TV screen with the proper dignity that this feminist heroine deserves.
If we don't pray, we have no right to portray prayer.
But if you tell me that you believe that. neurotic woman, then I will portray a different character.
But there have been none quite so vile as the Tudor king, Henry VII. He rewrote history to portray his predecessor, Richard III, as a deformed maniac who killed his nephews in the Tower.
I'll portray This dance strangers.
The way you portray him tickles my heart.
It may be wrong in some people's opinion to portray women the way I have, but it's not illegal.
They've re-created us so that they can provide false records and portray us to be, what, the bad guys?
You portray your mother as a queen in exile.
We can't portray him like that.

News and current affairs

Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo - or the past - as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.
For his part, Thaksin has sought to portray the recent election results as being all about him.
Ionesco's genius was to portray a world in which the absurd is triumphant.
Rowhani's efforts to portray Iran's foreign policy in a democratic light are less convincing.
They also portray American life as open, mobile, individualistic, anti-establishment, pluralist, populist, and free.
Europe's finance ministers portray the ECB as closed to dialogue.
When Estonia gained independence in 1991, Moscow sought to portray Estonia as a land with huge economic problems, unsuitable for investment.
New and traditional outlets alike must ensure that they portray the facts accurately and dispassionately, in order to foster a constructive, fair-minded discussion.
Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.
The enduring impact of the Holocaust, explored in hundreds of books and films, was to portray Nazism as the ultimate expression of evil.
Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.
What is occurring in the region is a clash within a civilization; to enable IS to portray it as a conflict between civilizations - and itself as the true defender of Islam - would be a grave strategic mistake.
But this only renewed UMNO's desire to portray itself as sufficiently Islamist.
The formula is simple: portray Islam as being threatened by infidels, and then have the UMNO ride to the rescue of the besieged Muslim community.
Arafat's legacy is thus a political culture in which a leader may portray a disastrous tactic, strategy, or outcome as a victory and be believed.
Many portray this war as the result of hatred between the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi.
Economists sometimes portray the global economy as a huge bazaar.
For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.
Furthermore, the government effort to portray independent journalists as vicious enemies unfairly condemns the many Ethiopian reporters and editors who take their responsibilities seriously.
Many central bankers portray former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (who served from August 1987 until January 2006) as the culprit, saying that he projected an image of central-bank omnipotence that is not warranted in theory or practice.
But this only renewed UMNO's desire to portray itself as sufficiently Islamist. So, before stepping down, Mahathir went so far as to declare Malaysia a de facto Muslim state.
ATLANTA - American diplomats like to portray their country's allies in glowing terms.
But it is equally enlightening to portray the biosphere of real, living microbes as a world wide web of informational exchange.

Are you looking for...?

portraitist | portrait | portraitlike | portraying | portrayer | portrayed | portrayal | portrayable | portrait frame | portrait style | portrait lens | portraiture
Wordcyclopedia Gutes Wörterbuch Толстый словарь Dobrý slovník
Sources WordNet, Open Multilingual Wordnet, Wiktionary, Dbnary, Panlex, FreeLing, Tatoeba, OpenSubtitles.org, Project Syndicate, OPUS, Kelly Project, SIL Semantic Domains
Contact info@wordcyclopedia.com
Creative Commons BY-SA