Definition of "portray" []

• To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of. (verb-transitive)
• To depict or describe in words. (verb-transitive)
• To represent dramatically, as on the stage. See Synonyms at represent. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "How much of what you portray is true and how much is pure invention?"
• "They are also actively hostile toward stories which concern matters military that again portray those matters as anything other than negative."
• "Coincidentally I watched Michael Palin portray him last night."