depainting

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