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Decapitated vs Depicted - What's the difference?

decapitated | depicted |

As verbs the difference between decapitated and depicted

is that decapitated is (decapitate) while depicted is (depict).

As an adjective decapitated

is with the head removed.

decapitated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • With the head removed.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (decapitate)
  • depicted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (depict)

  • depict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
  • * 1984 , Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music , vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
  • The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
  • * 1987 , Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times , vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
  • Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
  • * 1994 , E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News , vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
  • False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

    Usage notes

    * The subjects of the verb include words, music and images.

    Synonyms

    * portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submit

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Depicted.
  • (Lydgate)