English-Portuguese translations for portray

• retratar
  O cinema é um meio de comunicação que nos permite registar, preservar, retratar e vender a diversidade cultural da Europa. Film is a medium which enables us to record, preserve, portray and sell Europe's cultural diversity.
  No entanto, aqueles que pretendem retratar a situação real na Ucrânia a uma luz diferente estão enganados. However, those people who want to portray the real situation in Ukraine in a different light are mistaken.
  Se eu fosse Presidente do Conselho Europeu, também desejaria provavelmente retratar este Congresso de Viena permanente nos termos mais arrebatadores. If I were President of the European Council I would probably also be anxious to portray this permanent Congress of Vienna in the most dazzling terms.

Definition of portray

• To paint or draw the likeness of
• To describe in words; to convey
• To adorn

Examples

• I will portray a king on horseback
• For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare

Related words

• portrayal
• portraying
• portray a glittering picture