See portray in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To present a lifelike image of:
delineate, depict, describe, express, image, limn, picture, render, represent, show. See showTo play the part of:
act, do, enact, impersonate, perform, play, play-act, represent. See action, performing arts, substitute
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