Crossword-Solution: PORTRAY 7 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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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.

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PORTRAY anagram PARROTY, PRATORY

We have 44 clues for the answer “PORTRAY”

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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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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.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
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.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
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.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
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.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

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.
Hayao Miyazaki
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…
Gary L. Francione
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.
Nishikant The Papery Onions
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 18 times in crossword archives (1981–2018).