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depict
/dɪˈpɪkt/
verb 1adj 1
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1(verb.)
ADV
vividly
The documentary vividly depicts the daily struggles of families living in poverty.
Definitions
verb
1
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;
The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes
adj
1
Depicted.
Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;
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And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;
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The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes
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At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.
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Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse
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I'm not a poet; I couldn't write a single line to depict its beauty.
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Meanwhile, we depict aliens doing really weird stuff.
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