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portrayingverbpresent participle of portray to give a representation or account of in wordsthe author portrays her characters with lifelike vividness delineating, depicting, describing, drawing, imaging, limning, painting, picturing, rendering, setting out, sketching characterizing, defining, labeling(or labelling), qualifying, representingdemonstrating, illustratingnarrating, reciting, recounting, rehearsing, relating, reporting, tellingdisplaying, exhibiting, showinghinting, suggestingdrafting, outlining, silhouetting, tracing, vignettingsummarizing, summing up, touching offredescribing, reimaging coloring, distorting, falsifying, garbling, misdescribing, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, twisting, warping to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or grouptraditionally, European authors portrayed the natives as wise and noble charactering, characterizing, defining, depicting, describing, representing categorizing, classifying, pigeonholing, typingcoloring, identifying, indicating, naming, specifyingdistinguishing, individualizing, marking, particularizing, stamping to present a picture ofa landscape that portrays the scenery near the town where the painter grew up to present a portrayal or performance ofgained fame portraying Susan B. Anthony in a one-woman show acting, doing, impersonating, interpreting, performing, playing depicting, dramatizing, rendering, representingacting out, enacting, pantomiming, playacting, role-playing, taking onoveracting, overplaying, underplayingaping, clowning, hamming, imitating, masquerading, mimicking, miming, posing (as)starring (in)coacting(or co-acting), costarring(or co-starring) |