(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
When an actor or actress ~s someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.
In 1975 he ~ed the king in a Los Angeles revival of ‘Camelot’.
...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently ~ed by Toni Palmer.
VERB: V n, V-ed
2.
When a writer or artist ~s something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.
...this northern novelist, who accurately ~s provincial domestic life.
...the landscape as ~ed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.
= depict
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
If a film, book, or television programme ~s someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.
She says the programme ~ed her as a ‘lady of easy virtue’.
...complaints about the way women are ~ed in adverts.
VERB: V n as n, be V-ed