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depict English

Meaning depict meaning

What does depict mean?
Definitions in simple English

depict Verb

— To depict is to show, illustrate, or represent someone or something. Smoking is depicted as harmful to your health

depict

— verb (= draw) give a description of He drew an elaborate plan of attack — verb (= picture, render, show) show in, or as in, a picture This scene depicts country life the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting — verb (= portray) make a portrait of Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba

Synonyms depict synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as depict?

depict English » English

portray describe represent picture paint show render delineate draw play limn reenact present perform offer illustrate constitute sketch narrate introduce give characterize stage express enact act write out typify tender symbolize stand for stand speak sound out signify shoot set out sacrifice run retell reproduce relate raise qualify put forward put purport propose profile plot

Topics depict topics

What do people use depict to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Describe
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject

Conjugation depict conjugation

How do you conjugate depict?

depict · verb

Examples depict examples

How do I use depict in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It is impossible to depict that by means of words.
Many fantasy novels depict worlds with two moons.

Movie subtitles

Having learned of your courageous endeavor to visit the land of the Bolsheviks, we are sending you some New York magazines that depict the barbarous state of Russia today.
I'll show you whether or not our paintings depict freaks!
These panels from the doors to the gilded shrine depict the major happenings in the life of Ra.
You have the kind of skin renaissance painters used to depict angels. The lateral ones.
It's no crime to depict the bizarre inclinations that nature inspires in us.
They depict scenes of incredible beastliness - not fit for anyone to look at, let alone a young girl.
Our action-adventure editor, Mr. Hicks, wants to take a jump course today. so he can accurately depict the delights of skydiving in his column.
The earliest mosaics depict him as a smooth-cheeked youth.
Ladies and gentlemen, these photos depict horrors you may be expected to react to with disgust.
Why, here and now, we have an opportunity to depict and dramatize both the heights and the depths of a mama's true love of her daughter, if you get my meaning.
This year, we depict perhaps the most important day in our shared past. the first Thanksgiving!
Hedril may depict a fragile part of my mother.
You attributed it to your ex-wife, but used the details of my life. to depict her with contempt.
The Jews haven't suffered enough, you depict us as cannibals?
And what does it depict?
We could depict the sinners boiling in tar in such a way that. it would make one's flesh creep.
We have to depict them to obligateness of the words, their weight and significance.
They depict the Szern in thrones, posing, pompous.
You are so beautiful. And I will depict you as silent.
You attributed it all to your ex-wife Joan. but you gave her the details of my life. because you wanted to depict her with contempt.
Do you want to depict this violence?
Director Brown, wanting to depict a real family's fight for survival in the Florida wilderness, decided no actor would wear makeup.
Dramatic movies depict explicit sex.
You have the kind of skin renaissance painters used to depict angels.
This year, we depict perhaps the most important day in our shared past-- the first Thanksgiving!
Hedril may depict some fragile part of my mother.
I've thought extensively about the unique nature of the Japanese war film. This genre would only depict Japanese characters, but never their enemies.
Consciously or not, all of them depict contemporary Japanese society. as suffering from the lack of communication and failing human relationships.
We want to depict the dickensian lives of city children and then show clearly and concisely where the school system has failed them.
Yes, you see, I've accelerated the tempo there in order to depict the yearning of the superego.

News and current affairs

Paintings up to the end of the 19th century depict cityscapes with people all about the street.
Digital maps can be as dynamic as the communities that they depict.
At the Smithsonian, the Enola Gay was to play a central role in an exhibition meant to depict the Hiroshima bombing in all its complexity.
By failing to depict the Americans in the role of heroic benefactors, it suggested that they were responsible for a massacre that could not be totally justified.
News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition.

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