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Verb

paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)

1. (transitive) To apply paint to.
   • I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.
2. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
3. (transitive) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
4. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
   • not painted with the crimson spots of bloodc. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
   • to paint a portrait or a landscape
6. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
   • I've been painting since I was a young child.

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