Hyphenation of portray

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word portray? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

por-tray

Definitions of portray:

1.	Portray in words The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
2.	Make a portrait of Goya wanted to portray his mistress
3.	The Duchess of Alba
4.	Assume or act the character of She impersonates Madonna The actor portrays an elderly
5.	Lonely man
6.	Represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting

Synonyms of portray:

verb	represent
verb	depict, limn, represent, interpret
verb	impersonate, act, play, represent
verb	present, represent, interpret

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.