What's the difference between depaint and repaint?
Depaint
Definition:
(p. p.) Painted.
(v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.
(v. t.) To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
Example Sentences:
Repaint
Definition:
(v. t.) To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , one of the convicted Pussy Riot members, tweeted a photo of the repainted star with the message: "They're heroes, of course."
(2) "We are currently repainting the flat in anticipation of great guests, new members of the extended family and anyone else we can get to flog the tat from Dad's shop downstairs.
(3) In addition, tankers carrying Iranian oil are alleged to have switched off their automatic identification systems used to track their locations, and Iranian shipping firms are known to have frequently changed the name, owners, and flag state of vessels – even allegedly to have repainted tankers.
(4) Four climbers accused of repainting the Soviet star on one of Moscow's Stalinist skyscrapers in Ukrainian colours , and hanging a Ukrainian flag, are facing up to seven years in prison on charges of hooliganism.
(5) Vitaly continues to bring his collection of Soviet cameras, photographs and other paraphernalia to an outdoor flea market, where the afternoon sun gleamed off a Lenin bust that he had repainted to look like a "'90s gangster" with a moustache and a polka-dot tie.
(6) Instead, he pretended he knew nothing of his party's promises for a dress code for taxi drivers and a state-enforced repainting of the nation's trains in traditional colours.
(7) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(8) The landlord wouldn't do anything and when we moved out he charged us for repainting the wall where the damp was we'd told him about.
(9) He got the landlord to repaint it so that the outside walls became the colour of fresh butter and its shutters a rather hideous green.
(10) Perhaps more significantly in the eyes of customers, its planes were repainted from white to light blue, and the KAL tailfin logo – a red crane enclosed in a red circle – was replaced with a red-and-blue taegeuk , the Korean yin-yang symbol.
(11) In addition to the exterior being painted in red and white stripes, the property’s window frames are in a poor condition.” “The owner has the right to appeal the notice by 5 June in the magistrates courts but, if no appeal is forthcoming, the owner must repaint the front elevation white and carry out repairs to the windows by 3 July.
(12) Fighters and weapons have long been able to move freely along the unguarded sections of Russia's border with Ukraine, and reporters in Novoazovsk near the border with Russia say what appears to be hastily repainted Russian military hardware has appeared in the town in recent days.
(13) The Ukip leader said he had never read the 486 pages of policy documents that were published alongside Ukip's manifesto in 2010, which included plans to repaint trains in traditional colours, bring in a uniform for taxi drivers, and ban offshore windfarms amid fears they could hurt fish.
(14) Infection-control measures, including strict isolation and closure and repainting of the burn unit, did not prevent the transmission of Acinetobacter.
(15) An independent defence analyst, Anton Lavrov, said the video had indeed been taken at the Alabino military base, that some of the vehicles were obviously military trucks repainted white, and identified the launcher as Russia's powerful S-300 surface-to-air missile.
(16) He said he would take fresh flowers to the grave, which he recently repainted as the 20th anniversary loomed.
(18) It’s an attempt to clear whatever the state considers a threat to this image.” In addition to removing street vendors from certain areas of the capital, the government has also cleaned and repainted the facades of buildings in key public places, including Tahrir Square, which was the dynamic centre of the 2011 revolution.
(19) Significant engineering alterations to the MRCC and rusting of some of its interior sections necessitated repainting, which was completed in 1988.
(20) It was soon repainted from six to eight lanes, but this failed to make a dent on congestion levels – it remains the busiest road in Sweden.