depict
/dɪˈpɪkt/ verb C1- To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
He/she/it depicts · Past depicted · Past participle depicted · -ing form depicting
Verb forms
- Base form
- depict
- He/she/it
- depicts
- Past
- depicted
- Past participle
- depicted
- -ing form
- depicting
From the library
The artist who could have depicted the expression of these two countenances would certainly have made of them a beautiful picture.
Deep grief was depicted on Morrel’s features; he seized Monte Cristo’s hand.
The crime was depicted in the most vivid colors; the former life of the prisoner, his transformation, a review of his life from the earliest period, were set forth with all the talent that a knowledge of human life could furnish to a mind like that of the procureur.
His misery was depicted in sinister lines on his countenance.
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