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  • This one depicted a naked man cowering in front of the star, both his hands raised in fear.  (source)
    depicted = showed
  • In the Honolulu Advertiser, Louie found a cartoon depicting his role in bombing Wake.  (source)
    depicting = showing
  • Dad told me about all his plans and showed me his pages of graphs and calculations and geological charts, depicting the layers of sediment where the gold was buried.  (source)
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  • Still another depicted a crudely drawn knife dripping with "parent's guts," headstones for "Pa and Ma Bernall," and the letters R.I.P. Another had a large headline, "Vampires among us forever!" followed by a crude poem: Leave me to swallow my own blood, Let me drink my life away.†  (source)
    depicted = showed or represented
  • There were no other servicemen and no MPs and he walked for a long time, looking for a sign depicting a turtle with two snakes.  (source)
    depicting = showing
  • And yet, what do they depict?†  (source)
    depict = show or represent
  • Published a few months after the assassination, this work of fiction was filled with exaggerations and lies, but its cover was an accurate depiction of the shooting.†  (source)
    depiction = something shown or represented
    standard suffix: 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.
  • It is twice my height and four times my width and depicts an attractive woman with watery gray eyes and spectacles—Jeanine.†  (source)
    depicts = shows or represents
  • I can't relax looking at all these carefully stitched depictions of military battles and people being crucified.†  (source)
  • But read Ezekiel, who depicteth them As he beheld them from the region cold Coming with cloud, with whirlwind, and with fire; And such as thou shalt find them in his pages, Such were they here; saving that in their plumage John is with me, and differeth from him.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It depicteth" in older English, today we say "It depicts."
  • Closing time!" in English, French, and Afrikaans, though I have to admit they've picked up a few depictable phrases from my guests, over the years.†  (source)
    depictable = able to be portrayed
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in depictable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • This would, bien sib-, be most effectively depicted by a judicious scattering of topless models in the background.†  (source)
    depicted = showed or represented
  • He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.†  (source)
    depicting = showing or representing
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