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portray - make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" |
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depict,
limn |
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interpret,
represent make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
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artistic creation,
artistic production,
art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
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portray - represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting" |
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present |
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interpret,
represent make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
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artistic creation,
artistic production,
art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
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commend express approval of
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portray - portray in words; "The book portrays the actor as a selfish person" |
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represent point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance; "our parents represented to us the need for more caution"
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