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depainten

depainten is the past participle of depaint.

Meaning of depaint

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

Questions about depainten

What is depainten the past participle of?
Depainten is the past participle of depaint.

Words near depainten in the dictionary

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

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