depicting
- 1Present participle and gerund of depict.
The painting, depicting a stormy battlefield, drew large crowds at the gallery.
She spent months depicting the city's skyline in fine detail.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs, and position tells them apart. Placed after a noun, it works like a shortened relative clause: a mural depicting the harvest is a mural that depicts it. As a gerund, it names the act itself and still takes a direct object: depicting grief convincingly is hard. Depict once also served as an adjective meaning "depicted," a use now obsolete.
Depicting grief convincingly takes years of practice.
He was praised for depicting the war without glamour.
depicting is a form of depict
depict, verb: To portray or describe something in words, pictures, sound, or another medium. Full entry
- Spelling
- depict → depicting: add -ing
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