Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to represent
Participle: represented
Gerund: representing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | represent |
| you | represent |
| he;she;it | represents |
| we | represent |
| you | represent |
| they | represent |
Perfect
| I | have represented |
| you | have represented |
| he;she;it | has represented |
| we | have represented |
| you | have represented |
| they | have represented |
Past
| I | represented |
| you | represented |
| he;she;it | represented |
| we | represented |
| you | represented |
| they | represented |
Pluperfect
| I | had represented |
| you | had represented |
| he;she;it | had represented |
| we | had represented |
| you | had represented |
| they | had represented |
Future
| I | will represent |
| you | will represent |
| he;she;it | will represent |
| we | will represent |
| you | will represent |
| they | will represent |
Future Perfect
| I | will have represented |
| you | will have represented |
| he;she;it | will have represented |
| we | will have represented |
| you | will have represented |
| they | will have represented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | represent |
| you | represent |
| he;she;it | represent |
| we | represent |
| you | represent |
| they | represent |
Perfect
| I | have represented |
| you | have represented |
| he;she;it | have represented |
| we | have represented |
| you | have represented |
| they | have represented |
Imperfect
| I | represented |
| you | represented |
| he;she;it | represented |
| we | represented |
| you | represented |
| they | represented |
Pluperfect
| I | had represented |
| you | had represented |
| he;she;it | had represented |
| we | had represented |
| you | had represented |
| they | had represented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would represent |
| you | would represent |
| he;she;it | would represent |
| we | would represent |
| you | would represent |
| they | would represent |
Perfect
| I | would have represented |
| you | would have represented |
| he;she;it | would have represented |
| we | would have represented |
| you | would have represented |
| they | would have represented |
Imperative
| you | represent |
| we | Let's represent |
| you | represent |
Verbs conjugated like 'represent'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'represent'
re-present,
repræsent,
copresent,
present,
reprehend,
reresect,
decrement,
deprehend,
mispresent,
misrepresent,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to constitute
- compose
- to make up the whole
- compose, compound, comprise, constitute, form, make up, upmake
- symbolize
- exemplify, depict, present, denote, portray, designate, delineate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1375, "to bring to mind by description," from O.Fr.
representer (12c.), from L.
repræsentare, from
re-, intensive prefix, +
præsentare "to present," lit. "to place before" (see present (2)). Meaning "to symbolize, to be the embodiment of" is from c.1380. Legislative sense is attested from 1655.
Representation "image, likeness" is from c.1425; legislative sense first attested 1769.
2. From Old French représenter, from Latin repraesentō. Displaced native Old English spelian (“to represent”).
Verbs referencing "represent"
Esperanto
reprezenti, Finnish with old forms
representoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] him in the saloon. I imagined him one of those cast-iron images—I will not call them men—who ask, with red faces, and lusty voices, what sea-sickness means, and whether it really is as bad as it is represented to be. This was very torturing indeed; and I do n't think I ever felt such perfect gratification and gratitude of heart, as I did when I heard from the ship 's doctor that he had been obliged to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] has led to these remarks, is not walled, like other prisons, but is palisaded round about with tall rough stakes, something after the manner of an enclosure for keeping elephants in, as we see it represented in Eastern prints and pictures. The prisoners wear a parti-coloured dress; and those who are sentenced to hard labour, work at nail-making, or stone-cutting. When I was there, the latter class of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] men to look at, hard to deceive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impulse; and they as well represent the honour and wisdom of their country at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Mr. Wilson's mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton,—downy, soft, benevolently fuzzy and confused. He really pitied George with all his heart, and had a sort of dim and cloudy perception of the style of feeling that agitated him; [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] him from the top of a barrel of spirits. But the chief feature of this part of the show was a huge allegorical device, borne among the ship-carpenters, on one side whereof the steamboat Alcohol was represented bursting her boiler and exploding with a great crash, while upon the other, the good ship Temperance sailed away with a fair wind, to the heart 's content of the captain, crew, and passengers.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The Unitarian church is represented, in this remote place, as in most other parts of America, by a gentleman of great worth and excellence. The poor have good reason to remember and bless it; for it befriends them, and aids the cause [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] admiration of the spectator, and informed all admiring comers that she was ‘Just Seventeen: ’ although I should have thought her older. In the best room were two oil portraits of the kit-cat size, representing the landlord and his infant son; both looking as bold as lions, and staring out of the canvas with an intensity that would have been cheap at any price. They were painted, I think, by the artist [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] here, now, ” he added, drawing an elegant velvet case out of his pocket, and opening it, “ here's a present I got for you in New York. ” ~~~ It was a daguerreotype, clear and soft as an engraving, representing Eva and her father sitting hand in hand.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Public opinion! what class of men have an immense preponderance over the rest of the community, in their power of representing public opinion in the legislature ? the slave-owners. They send from their twelve States one hundred members, while the fourteen free States, with a free population nearly double, return but a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)