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- pronunciation:
- dih
pIkt
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verb |
| inflections: |
depicts, depicting, depicted |
| definition: |
When you depict something, you show it or describe it so that other people can see the way you think it looks or understand how you see that thing in your mind. People depict things in drawings, paintings, sculptures, or in something they write or say.
The art teacher asked the students to depict a dragon in their drawing, and each student drew a dragon that was quite different from the others.The movie depicts life on earth two thousand years from now.The book depicts the millionaire as a harsh and unpleasant man, but people who worked for the millionaire said that he wasn't really like that.- synonyms:
- paint
- similar words:
- define, describe, detail, draw, figure, picture, sketch, trace
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| related words: |
illustrate, perform, play |
| derivations: |
depiction (n.), depictor (n.) |
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