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# portray

«portray» in Mova's school dictionary: **to paint, draw or photograph them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (portrays, portrayed, portraying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To portray someone is to paint, draw or photograph them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#m1)

2) To portray someone is to show them in a story or on stage as a certain kind of person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#m2)

3) To portray something is to describe it in words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a tale or author shows a hero, villain or place in a particular way

### examples

- The painter portrayed the queen in gold and blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#x1)
- The book portrays the sea as cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#x2)
- The actor portrays the wicked king on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.585/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «portray» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portray/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.