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depaint

depaint verb: to depict.

Verb

depaint (third-person singular simple present depaints, present participle depainting, simple past depainted, past participle depainted or (archaic, rare) depainten)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To depict.
    • on his shield depainted he did see:
      Such homage till that instant never learned hee1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    paint, portray, delineate
  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

Synonyms of depaint

Antonyms

Forms of depaint

third-person singular presentdepaints
present participledepainting
pastdepainted
past participledepainted
past participle (archaic, rare)depainten

Origin of depaint

From de- + paint.

Words formed from depaint

Questions about depaint

What does depaint mean?
Depaint means to depict.
What part of speech is depaint?
Depaint is a verb.
What is the past tense of depaint?
The past tense of depaint is depainted.

Words near depaint in the dictionary

  1. depaganising
  2. depaganize
  3. depaganized
  4. depaganizes
  5. depaganizing
  6. depaint
  7. depainted
  8. depainten
  9. depainter
  10. depainters
  11. depainting

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