单词 | unpaint |
释义 | unpaintv. 1. transitive. To remove the paint from. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning of stains or marks > clean stains or marks (from) [verb (transitive)] > clean off paint unpaint1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Defarder To vnpaint; to wash, take, or wype off, painting. 1673 E. Polhill Divine Will ix. 468 This right Understanding hath a counter-work, it unleaves and unveils Sin, it unpaints & undresses it, it plucks off it false appearances and disguises. 1824 Q. Oriental Mag. 1 131 The latter [event] served still more completely, to wash the skins, and unpaint the noses of the Roman Catholic missionaries, displaying them to their converts, as no better than contemptible Fringys. 1844 Peter Parley's Ann. 265 Nothing now remained but to unpaint the young urchin; and so Sally..scrubbed till she was tired. 1908 V. L. Kellogg Insect Stories 235 We discovered that they were trying to unpaint a near-by house as fast as it was being freshly painted! 2001 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 19 Apr. d03 If you can open up walls and double the size of rooms, surely you can paint (or unpaint) wood trim. 2. transitive. To remove or obliterate (a painted picture, design, etc.). Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid unpainta1648 bisk1713 to paint out1834 to black out1850 ink out1881 to white out1974 Tippex1983 a1648 Ld. Herbert Occas. Verses (1665) 7 The taint Of foul Inconstancy is clear'd at least In me, there only rests but to unpaint Her form in my mind. a1718 T. Parnell Wks. (1755) 27 Unpaint the Love, that hov'ring over Beds, From glitt'ring pinions guilty pleasure sheds. 1774 E. Capell Notes & Var. Readings Shakespeare I. 19/2 To dislimn, unshape; properly,—unpaint. 1832 Day 28 Mar. 1/1 ‘And one man in his time, plays many parts’, dressing and undressing, painting and unpainting, his acts, words and deeds, as may be fitting. 1866 Visct. Strangford Sel. Writings (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. 1910 Maryland Med. Jrnl. 53 283 Mem'ry's brush paints and unpaints the Past. 2006 Arts & Bk. Rev. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 2 He puts his name to the expunged picture. He painted it, and he can unpaint it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1611 |
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