portray
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- v portray in words
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person - v make a portrait of
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba - v assume or act the character of
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man - v represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
- Some of Torvalds' supporters portray him as a sort of anti-Bill Gates, but the significance of Linux is much bigger than merely a slap at Microsoft.
- It's one thing to portray a vaguely Eastern European, naively anti-Semitic, sexist, insensitive but somehow lovable lout.
- The goal here was to portray what was real.