pictured

2 definitions • 4 examples

past simple and past participle of

to imagine something:

Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.

[ + -ing verb ] Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.

[ + question word ] Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.

formal He was pictured (= an artist had painted him) as a soldier in full uniform.