Portray and Write

Portray

Portray verb - To give a representation or account of in words.

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Write and portray are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Write" instead a verb "Portray".

Nearby Words: portrayal, portraying

Write verb - To compose and set down on paper the words of.

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Portray and write are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Portray" instead a verb "Write".

Nearby Words: writing, writer, writ, writable

character	portray character	write character
romance	portray romance	write romance
number	portray number	write number
scene	portray scene	write scene
Other words: way, characters, version, scenes.

Write What You Know: Lanchester has clearly done a lot of research in order to convincingly portray such a wide range of characters, but some of them appear to draw on his own life experience.

Source: Literature / Capital
While they were able to write the Warlords out of the war's history, they never felt able to completely deny the Guomindang's involvement and so instead worked to portray them as having been hopelessly corrupt, immoral, fascist, un-patriotic, traitorous puppets of the Americans.

Source: Useful Notes / Second Sino-Japanese War
If you write a story set during the Marauders' Era, you have to portray Wormtail being BFFs with the others when everyone reading it knows he will grow up to join Lord Voldemort and betray everyone.

Source: Doomed by Canon

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