portray
por|tray /pɔːrtr'eɪ/ (portrays portraying portrayed)
1 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of `Camelot'.
...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently portrayed by Toni Palmer.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
...this northern novelist, who accurately portrays provincial domestic life.
...the landscape as portrayed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
= depict
3 [VERB] V n as n, be V-ed
If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
She says the programme portrayed her as a `lady of easy virtue'.
...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.
1 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of `Camelot'.
...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently portrayed by Toni Palmer.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
...this northern novelist, who accurately portrays provincial domestic life.
...the landscape as portrayed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
= depict
3 [VERB] V n as n, be V-ed
If a film, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
She says the programme portrayed her as a `lady of easy virtue'.
...complaints about the way women are portrayed in adverts.