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portraying
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun portraying has 1 sense
- portraying(n = noun.cognition) depicting, depiction, portrayal - a representation by picture or portraiture; Array is a kind of representational process
has particulars: mirror
Derived forms verb portray2, verb portray4
THESAURUS
portraying
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
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