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# portrayed

«portrayed» in Mova's school dictionary: **was painted, drawn or described in a certain way; it is…** — 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 form (from portray: portrays, portrayed, portraying)

### meaning for a pupil

Portrayed means was painted, drawn or described in a certain way; it is the past form of portray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portrayed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a tale shows a character as good, wise or wicked

### examples

- The wizard is portrayed as wise and kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portrayed/#x1)
- The painting portrayed a horse in a green field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portrayed/#x2)
- In the tale the witch is portrayed as cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portrayed/#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 «portrayed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/portrayed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.