portray
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verb with object
depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature:
【絵画･写真などで】〈物･人〉を表現する, 描く «in» .
e.g. the author wanted to portray a new type of hero.
with object describe (someone or something) in a particular way:
(文章･映像で) «…であると» 〈物･人〉を表現する «as» (!しばしば実際とは違うことを暗示)
e.g. the book portrayed him as a self-serving careerist.
(of an actor) represent or play the part of (someone) on film or stage:
(舞台などで)…の役を演じる
e.g. he tossed his affable TV persona aside to portray a merciless mobster.
DERIVATIVES
portrayable adjective
portrayer |pôrˈtrāər| noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French portraire, based on traire ‘to draw’, from an alteration of Latin trahere.