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depicted

[dih-pikt]

verb (used with object)

to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.

to represent or characterize in words; describe.

Origin:
1625–35; < Latin dēpictus (past participle of dēpingere), equivalent to dē- de- + pic- past participle stem of pingere to paint + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

de·pict·er, de·pic·tor, noun

de·pic·tion, noun

de·pic·tive, adjective

un·de·pict·ed, adjective

well-de·pict·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. reproduce, draw, paint, limn. 1, 2. Depict, portray, sketch imply a representation of an object or scene by colors or lines, or by words. Depict emphasizes vividness of detail: to depict the confusion of departure. Portray emphasizes faithful representation: We could not portray the anguish of the exiles. Sketch suggests the drawing of the outlines of the most prominent features or details, often in a preparatory way: to sketch the plans for a community development.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters.

The cartoons depicted several common positive ideas and fears about computers and the information superhighway, she said.

Unfortunately they failed to check the markings on the plane depicted.

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Beware films with protagonists depicted as vastly more sensitive than their fellow characters.

The cartoons depicted several common positive ideas and fears about computers and the information superhighway, she said.

Unfortunately they failed to check the markings on the plane depicted.

Many of the figures are depicted in a sitting position, with their hands placed on their knees.

Mastodons, depicted here munching on black ash trees, and other megafauna vanished long ago.

Dinosaurs as depicted in museums, movies and art today are sleek, brightly-colored and often feathered.

The disgusting-looking blob of rubbery coal you see depicted here is, in fact, a malleable magnet.

In the genetic maps, each chromosome is depicted as a line, and the landmarks are located along it.

Both, with shocking ruthlessness, depicted exactly what they saw.

Such maps depicted paradise as imaginatively and confidently as they did earthly topography.

The city is depicted as one of both great wealth-with a lot of people wearing jade jewelry-and great poverty.

Depicted as a geometric shape, this pattern conforms to a donut-shaped figure known as a torus.

Early peoples trained cheetahs for hunting, and many civilizations depicted them in their art and in written records.

The wind shear is depicted in the different colors in these areas.

She is often depicted with a miniature walled town perched on her head, which is said to be the first crown.

What's important to note is that every word depicted on the slides and in the comic book was uttered at the trial.

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus apes are depicted interacting.

The future is depicted as more of the same mode as now.

Stegosaurus did not splay out its toes as depicted in many reconstructions.

In the block diagrams the studied transect is depicted in the cut-out part of the diagram and honors the data/observations.

Clouzot depicted the strict boys' school where both women were teachers as quietly agog over such hints of scandal.

Thanks chiefly to this, she is often depicted as a left-wing dogmatist.

Depicted in the drawing at top left, the victim was likely a secutor, a fin-helmeted type of gladiator meant to represent a fish.

In the first, which lasted barely a year, sacred practices and ritual objects were often depicted in a representational style.

Some claim that other trims depicted astronauts jogging and searching for a replacement antenna part.

And the interactions depicted in that op-ed included members of the latter group denigrating the author with the infamous n-word.

Not all immigrant smugglers are the ruthless criminals depicted by international law enforcement officials.

Strength does not always imply such extreme body shapes as are depicted in the body builder mags and contests.

Quintessential glam covers depicted male band members striking troublemaker.

Ask students individually or as a group to create fairy tales which feature one or more wolves-not depicted as villains.

He was depicted as a blue man fully armed with hummingbird feathers on his.

These objects have never existed any moment as they are depicted here.

Friezes on the wall depicted men holding what appeared to be femurs, giving rise to the interpretation of thighbones as scepters.

It depicted a stern-looking marshal coming into town on horseback.

But should you agitate me further the same metaphorical fate awaits you as the unfortunate fan depicted in this video:.

Your cover depicted tycoons with cash in hand fleeing before a pack of baying hounds and politicians in full fox-hunting regalia.

Foreigners were labeled by their regional or political names, and they were always depicted with distinctive features and dress.

Squint your eyes and you will see that the blue depicted is almost as dark as the black.

Their patrons wanted to experience-as well as own-the scenery depicted in these works.

Some of the scenes depicted are too much for younger readers, but this is easily avoided by reading out-loud.

The idea of the father's unselfish devotion to his son is depicted quite convincingly.

Levitt, economist himself, is a character depicted in the book reviewed.

We move to a fragment of a wall relief that once depicted the tomb owner and his wife.

People are not going to believe this article because there are case studies depicted in this article.

What's missing is memorable dialogue and the sense that anything depicted on screen could actually happen.

Farnsworth, who helped invent the television, is depicted holding a cathode ray tube and a roll of patents.

They had never seen another actor so completely become the character depicted.

Dinosaurs have traditionally been depicted with their fleshy nostrils positioned toward the back of their bony noses.

GRs in cartilaginous fish, such as the little skate depicted here, respond to multiple steroid hormones.

The blood depicted in game has also changed from red to black.

The series of photos depicted preppy style as filtered through an outsider's lens.

They were painted blue and red and depicted a recessed series of doorways, which was a common design for false doors.

Repulsed by the space operas that had come before, they depicted spaceflight as slow and silent.

He blamed the malaise of a society he depicted as too ready to forfeit family values in the face of economic pressures.

One of the great conceits of both the book and the movie is that the event is never actually depicted.

The contrasting movements/features are depicted by the contrast of lightness and darkness, in the semi-urban city.

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Word Origin & History

depict

c.1430, from L. depictus, pp. of depigere, from de- "down" + pingere "to paint" (see paint).

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