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depaints

depaints is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 depaints

What is depaints the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Depaints is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depaint.

Words near depaints in the dictionary

  1. depainted
  2. depainten
  3. depainter
  4. depainters
  5. depainting
  6. depaints
  7. depaired
  8. depairing
  9. depairings
  10. depalatalise
  11. depalatalised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depaints (page history and authors); depaint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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