Dictionary Entry
portray
portray is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
- 2transitive verb
Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
- 3transitive verb
To adorn with pictures.
- 4verb
portray in words
"The book portrays the actor as a selfish person"
- 5verb
make a portrait of
"Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
- 6verb
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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- 7verb
assume or act the character of
"She impersonates Madonna"
"The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
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