Portray is valid Scrabble Word

Is portray a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is portray valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PORTRAY in dictionary:

VERB:

to paint or draw the likeness of, also POURTRAY
depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature
describe (someone or something) in a particular way
(of an actor) play the part of (someone) in a film or play
describe or represent by artistic means, as in writing or film
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
To adorn with pictures.
portray in words
make a portrait of

assume or act the character of
represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to represent pictorially

Words related to PORTRAY

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Words that contain PORTRAY

portrays13 portrayal14 portrayed15 portrayer14 portrayals15 portrayers15 portraying16 portrayable18

How to use PORTRAY in a sentence

It did not occur to our first, unknown dramatists to portray men and women as they are until they had first made characters of abstract human qualities.
He himself said of the greatest of his Storm and Stress dramas that he had attempted to portray humanity before he really knew humanity.
When Michelangelo resumed his work there, it was to portray him as an angered Hercules, hurling curses upon helpless victims.
It would not be easy to portray to the reader all the delight which these specks of incipient verdure conveyed to the mind of Mark Woolston.
The spectators simply passed it over as a more or less clumsy attempt to portray a vision of a disordered brain.
An attempt is made to do away with the prescribed attitudes and the strict proportions, and to portray any one individual with his natural defects.
No pen could adequately portray the horrors of this fearful night.
His heart can pity every suffering as fully as his pencil can portray it.
At last he began to know it, and started to portray it in a little tale.
His books will always be read for the accurate pen pictures of pioneer life they portray.

Wise is that sculptor who, when portray an individual he must, treats arbitrarily the mere actual husk, and strives but to show the soul.
They would portray Christ in such a light that even the least intelligent mind might be brought into living sympathy with his humanity.
His inability to portray the higher types of character was an absolute bar to success.
The singer must not portray one mood with his face, another with his voice, while the poem suggests still a third.
Thus by means of action does the skillful author portray his conception of human life and human character.
He does also portray an almost Christ-like love, a love that is outside the body and has the nature of a melting and exquisite charity.
She loves to portray men puffed up with self-approval.
Deshayes had triumphantly intended to portray the first dawn of an art which he considers to have now reached the summit of perfection.
The followers of art should be able, before and above all, to portray humanity in its essential truth, and according to the original tendency of each type.
An artist, for instance, will see in a woman, whom time has tried, certain elements of beauty which enable him to portray her nearly as she was at the age of twenty years.
I am trying to portray the scenes of those days exactly as they occurred, and if I left the gambling scenes out it would not be a true history.
I have simply attempted to portray from memory events that actually occurred under my own observation.
With his powers at high tide, in the first glamour of a great passion, he set himself to work next morning to portray her as his heart knew her.
To portray exactly, constitutes the duty of a historian.
All who have attempted to portray Shelley, either intellectually or physically, have done so from some appreciable, almost personal point of view.
The whole of the ancient society which I have endeavoured to portray has disappeared.
The face was of that dark bronzed color which human ingenuity has, from time immemorial, adopted as the best medium to portray a superhuman expression.
A third suggestion is that they portray the generative aspect of nature in the form of a pregnant goddess.
The Greeks could have portrait-statues, because all they looked for in the man they saw in his form, and, seeing it, could portray it.

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