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repainting

repainting is the present participle and gerund of repaint.

Meaning of repaint

Verb

repaint (third-person singular simple present repaints, present participle repainting, simple past and past participle repainted)

  1. To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
    • to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture
  2. (ambitransitive) To draw or render again on the display.
    • To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551

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Noun

repainting (plural repaintings)

  1. The act of painting something again.

Forms of repainting

pluralrepaintings

Questions about repainting

What does repainting mean?
Repainting means the act of painting something again.
What is repainting the present participle and gerund of?
Repainting is the present participle and gerund of repaint.
What part of speech is repainting?
Repainting is a noun.
What is the plural of repainting?
The plural of repainting is repaintings.

Words near repainting in the dictionary

  1. repaint
  2. repaintable
  3. repainted
  4. repainter
  5. repainters
  6. repainting
  7. repaintings
  8. repaints
  9. repair
  10. repair heddle
  11. repair heddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repainting (page history and authors); repaint (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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