portrayed
USpor-TRAYD/pɔɹˈtɹeɪd/Saypaw-TRAYDUK/pɔːˈtɹeɪd/AUS/poːˈtɹæɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of portray.
The novel portrayed village life with surprising tenderness and detail.
Critics argued that the documentary portrayed the protests unfairly.
Note
One regular -ed form does double duty. Standing alone it is the simple past (the novel portrayed village life). After have or be it is the participle of perfect and passive clauses (she was portrayed as a villain). It carries every meaning of portray: a painter's likeness, a writer's description, an actor's role. The old sense 'adorned' survives only in older texts.
portrayed is a form of portray
portray, verb: To act out a role, or to depict a character, person, situation, or event in a performance or work. Full entry
- Forms
- portrayportrays he/she/itportraying -ing formportrayed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- portray → portrayed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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