Lexic.us

Definition of Depict

1. Verb. Show in, or as in, a picture. "The face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"

2. Verb. Give a description of. "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

3. Verb. Make a portrait of. "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"

Definition of Depict

1. p. p. Depicted.

2. v. t. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.

Definition of Depict

1. Verb. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Depict

1. to portray [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: portray

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depict

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dephysicalization dephysicalize dephysicalized dephysicalizes dephysicalizing depict (current term) depictable depicted depicted object depicter

depicters depicting depiction depictions depictive depictor depictors depicts depicture depictured

Literary usage of Depict

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and 1 tl stand pretty correctly the ¡ma as you have tried to depict it, a gaged in reading I have dismiss mind all my knowledge of the trines and ..."

2. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"... furnished him with general ideas and striking incidents, which suffice to depict manners. IV. Moreover, it was to this that he turned his talent. ..."

3. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... tried repeatedly to depict this faithfully upon canvas, but, finally, have left it in despair. In fact, its coloring is so intense, that as the bubbles, ..."

4. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"So frightfully did he depict the insurmountable obstacles, that their guide, Milo, took the earliest opportunity to slope—they saw him no more—while the ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"The accompanying engraving will afford a correct idea of the several prisons, and the scene which I have endeavored to describe : No language can depict the ..."

6. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-Known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"When he wants to depict the sturdy Dutch soul he draws a sturdy Dutch Body—ready to defend her home. No flags, no highfalutin, no symbolical figure posed ..."

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