Crossword-Solution: PORTRAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Portray | v. t. | To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. |
| Portray | v. t. | Hence, figuratively, to describe in words. |
| Portray | v. t. | To adorn with pictures. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PORTRAY | anagram | PARROTY, PRATORY |
We have 44 clues for the answer “PORTRAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| describe or represent by artistic means, as in writing or film | 1 answer |
| Make likeness of | 1 answer |
| Assume, as a character | 1 answer |
| Describe in painting or words | 2 answers |
| Act as | 3 answers |
| Play the role of | 3 answers |
| DESCRIBE in words | 3 answers |
| REPRESENT in words | 3 answers |
| make a portrait of | 4 answers |
| allegorise | 5 answers |
| Emblazon | 5 answers |
| IMPART dramatic character | 6 answers |
| allegorize | 7 answers |
| Limn | 13 answers |
| explicate | 13 answers |
| Etch | 16 answers |
| ACT on behalf of | 29 answers |
| symbolise | 30 answers |
| PLAY the part | 34 answers |
| typify | 34 answers |
| connote | 35 answers |
| Interpret | 35 answers |
| Enact | 36 answers |
| epitomise | 38 answers |
| Personify | 38 answers |
| Stand for | 40 answers |
| denote | 40 answers |
| render | 42 answers |
| Reflect | 43 answers |
| Depict | 44 answers |
| Entitle | 44 answers |
| characterise | 44 answers |
| Delineate | 45 answers |
| Represent | 46 answers |
| Demonstrate | 49 answers |
| personalise | 50 answers |
| Imagine | 55 answers |
| Play | 55 answers |
| Imitate | 56 answers |
| Emblem | 57 answers |
| Impersonate | 63 answers |
| Image | 69 answers |
| Design | 80 answers |
| Show | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PORTRAY (5)
Tone of Voice Since common computers can't portray the inflection or tone in a person's voice, how articles are worded can directly affect the response to them.
One is not astonished by cruelty in a hideous face, but when it touches the features of a goddess whose fine-chiselled lineaments might more fittingly portray love and beauty, the contrast is appalling.
For my part, I love to feel the grape at my very finger-ends before they make the harp-strings tinkle.” 22 CHAPTER XVII At eve, within yon studious nook, I ope my brass-embossed book, Portray’d with many a holy deed Of martyrs crown’d with heavenly meed; Then, as my taper waxes dim, Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn.
Archer, with an inclination of his head, ‘you portray a very brave existence.’ ‘Well,’ continued Jonathan, ‘and in the end thieves deceive you, thieves rob and rook you, thieves turn you out in your old age and send you begging.
Hales, it would appear, had known his business; and though he put his sitter to a deal of trouble, almost breaking his neck “to have the portrait full of shadows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no merely picturesque effects, but to portray the essence of the man.
Quotes with PORTRAY (3)
I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.
An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather); and (3) regards veganism, or the complete rejection of the consumpt…
Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates and depicts the things are based on the words he discovers. At one point where words portray happiness for someone, it also counts for the tears to some. The day we comprehend the strength of words, we would choose them more closely and patiently. Where we would prefer silence more over words. If words are our strength, they are our weakness too.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1981–2018).