depaint

English

Etymology

de- +‎ paint

Verb

depaint (third-person singular simple present depaints, present participle depainting, simple past depainted, past participle depainted or (archaic, rare) depainten)

1. (archaic) To depict

   Synonyms: paint, portray, delineate

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2. (archaic) To depict in words; to describe graphically.
3. (archaic) To colour; to decorate with colours.
4. (archaic) To stain; to distain.
5. (transitive) To remove paint from.

   aircraft depainting technology

Translations

to remove paint

• Finnish: poistaa maali
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “depaint”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• antidep, inadept, painted, pantied, patined, tenidap