Depicted
[di'piktid]
Definition
(adj.) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines .
Checker: Raymond--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Depict
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Examples
- And then he heard Lydgate's account of the troubles which Rosamond had already depicted to him in her way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile; but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pictures drawn in these books were so vivid, that we seemed to have experienced the results depicted by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I never after saw such consternation depicted on the faces of the people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The surprise depicted on the countenances of his guests imparted new courage to the host. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Horror was depicted on every countenance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was dry, and he flung himself down upon the barrow, his face towards the moon, which depicted a small image of herself in each of his eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You will think I have depicted a remarkable slattern, reader. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The old man looked round the table, and leered more horribly than ever, as if in triumph, at the attention which was depicted in every face. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The scenes depicted for the most part, a fair-skinned, fair-haired people at play. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The three syllables of this charade were to be depicted in pantomime, and the performance took place in the following wise: First syllable. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That he has felt his inferiority is clear, for his imagination has given wings to the angels, and has depicted Mercury, the messenger of the gods, with a similar equipment on his heels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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