depaint

English

Etymology

Verb

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

(archaic) To depict
Synonyms: paint, portray, delineate

(Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
(archaic) To depict in words; to describe graphically.
(archaic) To colour; to decorate with colours.
(archaic) To stain; to distain.
(transitive) To remove paint from.
aircraft depainting technology

Translations

to remove paint

Finnish: poistaa maali

References

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

Anagrams

antidep, inadept, painted, pantied, patined, tenidap

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