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impaint

impaint verb: to paint; to decorate with colours.

Verb

impaint (third-person singular simple present impaints, present participle impainting, simple past and past participle impainted)

  1. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To paint; to decorate with colours.
    • to impaint his causec. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of impaint

third-person singular presentimpaints
present participleimpainting
past participleimpainted
pastimpainted

Origin of impaint

From im- + paint?

Questions about impaint

What does impaint mean?
Impaint means to paint; to decorate with colours.
What part of speech is impaint?
Impaint is a verb.
What is the past tense of impaint?
The past tense of impaint is impainted.

Words near impaint in the dictionary

  1. impactor
  2. impactors
  3. impacts
  4. impactual
  5. impacturbation
  6. impaint
  7. impainted
  8. impainting
  9. impaints
  10. impair
  11. impairable

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