portray
verb
[ pɔːˈtreɪ ]
• depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature.
• "the ineffectual Oxbridge dons portrayed by Evelyn Waugh"
Similar:
paint,
draw,
paint/draw a picture of,
picture,
sketch,
depict,
represent,
illustrate,
present,
show,
render,
limn,
describe,
characterize,
delineate,
paint in words,
evoke,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French portraire, based on traire ‘to draw’, from an alteration of Latin trahere .
