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Webster 1913 Edition
Depaint
De-paint′
,p.
p.
Painted.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
De-paint′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Depainted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Depainting
.] 1.
To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.
[Obs.]
And do unwilling worship to the saint
That on his shield
That on his shield
depainted
he did see. Spenser.
In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . .
depainted
. Holland.
2.
To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
Silver drops her vermeil cheeks
depaint
. Fairfax.
Webster 1828 Edition
Depaint
DEPAINT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To paint; to picture; to represent in colors, as by painting the resemblance.2.
To describe in words.Definition 2024
depaint
depaint
English
Verb
depaint (third-person singular simple present depaints, present participle depainting, simple past depainted, past participle depainted or (archaic, rare) depainten)
- (archaic) To depict; to paint; to portray; to delineate.
- (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
References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.