depaint

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ paint.

Verb

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

(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
(archaic, transitive) To depict in words; to describe graphically.
(archaic, transitive) To colour; to decorate with colours.
(archaic, transitive) To stain; to distain.
(transitive) To remove paint from.
aircraft depainting technology

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “remove paint”): paint

Derived terms

depainter

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