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Definition of Portray

Portray

  1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
  2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
  3. To adorn with pictures.

Portray Quotations

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David Byrne

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
Deepak Chopra

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Kim Weston

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence
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Portray Translations

portray in Spanish is retratar

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