depicted
di-PIK-tid/dɪˈpɪktɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of depict.
The mural depicted scenes from the town's early history.
Several portraits in the gallery depicted the same royal family.
Note
One regular spelling covers two jobs. In the mural depicted the harbor, it is a simple past. In the harbor is depicted in the mural, it is a past participle carrying a passive, with the subject being what is shown, not who showed it. Older English could drop the ending altogether: depict itself once served as an adjective meaning "depicted," a use now obsolete.
depicted is a form of depict
depict, verb: To portray or describe something in words, pictures, sound, or another medium. Full entry
- Spelling
- depict → depicted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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