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

• IPA: /dɪˈpɪkt/

depict (depicts, present participle depicting; simple past and past participle depicted)

1. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. [from early 15th c.]

   Synonyms: portray, express, exhibit, register, show, describe, visualise, draw, render, depicture

   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre‎, Cambridge, Book 4, Chapter 12, p. 189:

     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;

   • 1770, Thomas Chatterton, The Auction, a Poem: A Familiar Epistle to a Friend‎, London: George Kearsly:

     The Spring, when all its beauties rise,
     I see depicted in your eyes

   • 1851, George Borrow, chapter XXIV, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC ↗, page 212 ↗:

     At first, I believe, I answered her very incoherently, for I observed alarm beginning to depict itself upon her countenance.

   • 1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),

     False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

• depiction
• depictive

• French: représenter, décrire
• German: darstellen, beschreiben, abbilden
• Italian: rappresentare, raffigurare
• Portuguese: representar, retratar, descrever
• Russian: изобража́ть
• Spanish: representar, retratar, describir

depict (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Depicted.
   • Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Halliwell-Phillipps (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;