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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apish, delineatory, depictive, echoic, embodying, figurative, graphic, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, representational, representative, representing, simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid
Dictionary Results for portraying:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
portraying
    n 1: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn:
         depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Portray \Por*tray"\, v. t. [Written also pourtray.] [imp. & p.
   p. portrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Portraying.] [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.
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            Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray
            upon it the city, even Jerusalem.     --Ezek. iv. 1.
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   2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
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   3. To adorn with pictures. [R.]
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            Spear and helmets thronged, and shields
            Various with boastful arguments potrayed. --Milton.
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