depicts

VERB

describe, render in drawing or writing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

characterize detail illustrate interpret paint portray represent reproduce sketch

STRONG

delineate design image limn narrate outline picture relate report sculpt state

Antonyms

STRONGEST

hide

STRONG

conceal suppress

WEAK

confuse distort mix up

Example Sentences

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The puppet depicts Paine as a skeleton because Fitzgerald - AKA graphic artist Polyp - was moved by the mysterious story of the disappearance of Paine's exhumed bones after his death.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

In “The Road,” Cormac McCarthy depicts a postapocalyptic world with the savagery and tangled lyricism he earlier brought to blood-dimmed novels about the Western borderlands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

“The Short Life of John Doe” was painted in 1975 and depicts the transformation of East L.A. from untouched rolling hills to the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

The Dancing Girl sculpture, which was discovered at Mohenjo-daro - one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation - depicts a girl adorned with ornaments with her hair tied in a bun.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

But the small amount he did write depicts a crowded and prosperous land.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann