depaint

de- +‎ paint

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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

• “depaint” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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