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to portray (show or represent) something — usually with a picture or words

The book depicts the precariousness financial position of a working class, single mom.

His painting depicts country life.
The movie depicts their damaged relationship, how Lorenzo never felt loved by his father.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
How does this striking depiction of Christ affect your faith?
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

Many of the drawings depict tanks running over huts, men brandishing AK-47s, refugee camp tents, scenes of jihad.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns
The thought of arguing with a man as grief crazed as the one Mammy depicted made her go cold.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
What did my client meet with when he arrived here, at his father's house, and why depict my client as a heartless egoist and monster?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
And then he heard Lydgate's account of the troubles which Rosamond had already depicted to him in her way.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
The postcard depicted not only Boone Creek's way of life half a century before but also the way that Gherkin hoped the town could be again.
Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
I witnessed some of the scenes depicted of Maraa Isabel's life with her daughter.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
But content with the prospect as now depicted was hard to acquire.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Gods are almost always depicted as nude, because we are flawless beings.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
It required no very vivid imagination to depict the most frightful scenes through which I should have to pass, in case I failed.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I have accurately described your individual situations and accurately depicted the inferiority of your superiors.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
A few benches ran along the walls, above which were vivid colors depicting colossal figures of workers carrying streaming banners.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Each painting is worse than the last, depicting Silver strength and Red weakness in every brushstroke.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
Khnum had been depicted as a potter sculpting a human from clay.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.
Walter Dean Myers -- Monster
I will make a beautiful tapestry depicting your death.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
Astonishment and dismay were depicted on the face of my wife as we approached.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

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