#️⃣#Describe /dɪˈskraɪb/ #verb
📚#Thesaurus:
⚪️describe ➡️ to talk or write about a person, place, event etc, in order to show what they are like:
✨Could you try and describe the man you saw?
✨In her book, she describes her journey across the Sahara.
✨Police described the attack as particularly violent.
⚪️tell somebody about somebody / something ➡️ to describe someone or something to someone. This phrase is more commonly used than describe in everyday spoken English:
✨So, tell me about your holiday!
✨My friends have told me all about you!
⚪️depict #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a piece of writing:
✨His stories depict life in Trinidad as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
✨In this new biography she is depicted as a lonely and unhappy woman.
⚪️portray / represent #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a particular way:
✨College teachers are often represented on television shows as slightly eccentric.
✨The magazine has been criticized for the way it portrays women.
✨The treatment has been portrayed as a painless way of curing cancer, which is simply not true.
✨Police have represented her as a willing participant in the crimes.
⚪️characterize somebody / something as something #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something by emphasizing one particular quality or feature about them:
✨He characterized himself as ‘an average American’.
✨The successful schools were characterized as innovative and creative.
⚪️paint somebody / something as something ➡️ to describe someone or something, especially in a way that makes people believe something that is not true:
✨Not all young people are as bad as they’re painted in the press.
✨We won, yet the media is painting it as a victory for our opponents.
✨The woman was painted as having only a slight grasp of reality.
⚪️paint a picture ➡️ to describe a situation, so that people can get a general idea of what it is like:
✨Can you paint a picture of life in Japan for us?
✨My uncle’s letters generally painted a rosy picture of how things were.
✨The report painted a bleak picture of the management’s failures.
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📚#Thesaurus:
⚪️describe ➡️ to talk or write about a person, place, event etc, in order to show what they are like:
✨Could you try and describe the man you saw?
✨In her book, she describes her journey across the Sahara.
✨Police described the attack as particularly violent.
⚪️tell somebody about somebody / something ➡️ to describe someone or something to someone. This phrase is more commonly used than describe in everyday spoken English:
✨So, tell me about your holiday!
✨My friends have told me all about you!
⚪️depict #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a piece of writing:
✨His stories depict life in Trinidad as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
✨In this new biography she is depicted as a lonely and unhappy woman.
⚪️portray / represent #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something in a particular way:
✨College teachers are often represented on television shows as slightly eccentric.
✨The magazine has been criticized for the way it portrays women.
✨The treatment has been portrayed as a painless way of curing cancer, which is simply not true.
✨Police have represented her as a willing participant in the crimes.
⚪️characterize somebody / something as something #formal ➡️ to describe someone or something by emphasizing one particular quality or feature about them:
✨He characterized himself as ‘an average American’.
✨The successful schools were characterized as innovative and creative.
⚪️paint somebody / something as something ➡️ to describe someone or something, especially in a way that makes people believe something that is not true:
✨Not all young people are as bad as they’re painted in the press.
✨We won, yet the media is painting it as a victory for our opponents.
✨The woman was painted as having only a slight grasp of reality.
⚪️paint a picture ➡️ to describe a situation, so that people can get a general idea of what it is like:
✨Can you paint a picture of life in Japan for us?
✨My uncle’s letters generally painted a rosy picture of how things were.
✨The report painted a bleak picture of the management’s failures.
#Vocabulary
#Essential_English_words
@PMPerfect1