depicts
Saydi-PIKTS/dɪˈpɪkts/
- 1Third-person singular present of depict.
The mural depicts the city's founding in vivid color.
Her novel depicts life in a small mining town during a long strike.
Note
The present-tense form for a single subject, such as a mural, a novel or she, and the only present form of the verb that takes an ending. Its range follows the verb itself: a painting, a song or a page of prose can all depict. In the perfect it gives way to the participle: the mural has depicted, never has depicts. The old adjective depict, meaning "depicted," is obsolete, so depicts is always the verb.
depicts is a form of depict
depict, verb: To portray or describe something in words, pictures, sound, or another medium. Full entry
- Spelling
- depict → depicts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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