picturing

Verb

picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)

1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
   • while upon the shaded top of the box, drawn in perspective, the artist had pictured a plate with the beautifully executed, twin-lobed, brainlike, halved kernel of a walnut.1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 130
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
   • Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark.1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 67
3. (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.
   • I had never found him so impossible to soften or to move. I tried this way and I tried that; I pictured his future in an English gaol; I described the sorrow of his mother when I came back with the news; I said everything to touch his heart, but all to no purpose.1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Watches

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