PORTRAYED

depicted, pictured, portrayed

(adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

portrayed

simple past tense and past participle of portray

Anagrams

• predatory

Source: Wiktionary


PORTRAY

Por*tray", v. t. [Written also pourtray.] [imp. & p. p. portrayed (; p. pr. & vb. n. Portraying.] Etym: [OE. pourtraien, OF. portraire, pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t., and cf. Protract.]

1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem. Ezek. iv. 1.

2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.

3. To adorn with pictures. [R.] Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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