Usually means: Represents or depicts someone, something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. portrays: Merriam-Webster
  2. portrays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. portrays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Portrays, portrays: Wordnik
  5. portrays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. portrays: Wiktionary
  7. portrays: Dictionary.com
  8. portrays: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. portrays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portrays: Legal dictionary

(Note: See portray as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (portray)

verb:  To paint or draw the likeness of.
verb:  (figuratively) To represent by an image or look.
verb:  (figuratively) To describe in words; to convey.
verb:  To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
verb:  (obsolete) To adorn.
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