depict

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/dɪˈpɪkt/

Definition of depict

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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”
    “At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.”
    “The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.”
    “Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.”
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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”
    “At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.”
    “The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.”
    “Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)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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Etymology

From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.

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