unˈpaint, v.
[un-2 4.]
1. trans. To free from paint.
| 1611 Cotgr., Defarder, to vnpaint; to wash, take, or wype off, painting. 1844 P. Parley's Ann. V. 265 Nothing now remained but to unpaint the young urchin; and so Sally..scrubbed till she was tired. |
2. To paint out; to obliterate (something painted).
| a 1717 Parnell Piety 53 Unpaint the Love, that hov'ring over Beds, From glitt'ring Pinions guilty Pleasure sheds. 1755 Johnson Dict., To Dislimn, to unpaint. 1866 Visct. Strangford Select. (1869) II. 320 An unobtrusive little coronet which my wife has had painted..upon the panels of her carriage, and which I defy all the powers on earth..to induce her to unpaint. |