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depaint en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + paint.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To depict.
    • on his shield depainted he did see: Such homage till that instant never learned hee 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  2. (archaic, transitive) To depict in words; to describe graphically.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To colour; to decorate with colours.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To stain; to distain.
  5. (transitive) To remove paint from.
    • aircraft depainting technology

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
depaints Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
depainted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
depainted Tense=Past lexicographic
depainten Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part archaic, rare lexicographic
depainting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

paint (antonym(s) of “remove paint”)

Deriveds

depainter

Synonyms

portray · paint · delineate

Translations (2)

fi poistaa maali (to remove paint) · br dilivañ (to remove paint)