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, transitive) To depict.

   Synonyms: paint, portray, delineate

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     on his shield depainted he did see:
     Such homage till that instant never learned hee

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

   aircraft depainting technology

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “remove paint”): paint

Translations

to remove paint

• Breton: dilivañ (br)
• Finnish: poistaa maali

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