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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Portray \Por*tray"\, verb (used with an object) [Written also {pourtray}.] [imp. & p. p. {portrayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Portraying}.] [OE. pourtraien, OF. portraire, pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See {Trace}, verb (used with an object), and cf. {Protract}.]
1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem. --Ezek. iv. 1.
2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
3. To adorn with pictures. [R.]
Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
portraying
noun: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: {depicting}, {depiction}, {portrayal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "portraying": apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid
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