to repaint
27
1.3
- verb
- /ˌriːˈpeɪnt/
:
repintar
- The winners will get to help repaint the Space Needle roof.
- repainted the walls
She taught me basic tips for stripping, sanding, and repainting or staining wood.
- She taught me basic tips for stripping, sanding, and repainting or staining wood.
- All right, so again, let's repaint the picture.
- And all that stuff had to be scrubbed down and repainted.
- We are due to get our house repainted and this whole porch area needs to be thoroughly scraped and repainted.
- We could decide we want to repaint it, you know, and make it black or white or whatever, you know, you get the idea.
- I was that kid that was always repainting my bedroom, always moving my bed to find the optimum place that it could be.
- We are just repainting the Home Office, getting a new toilet installed, and maybe adding some soundproof windows because I live on a pretty noisy St.
- And she was allowed to just repaint the sky.
- And so it, it could stand to be, you know, repainted parts of it anyway.
Examples
-
Did you just get your room repainted?
-
But I would like to repaint this bedroom.
-
I like to repaint the walls as well.
-
We had a rough couple of weeks at the end of the first trimester, when she wanted to repaint the whole house.
-
These wardrobes were here when we had the room built, so that hasn't changed, but we did repaint the walls.
-
They're repainting the whole fleet.
-
The ceiling has been repainted, and two electrical cords are hanging down where the light used to be.
Fiction book (1994) -
The hallway is all being repainted to this colour, which is way cooler, toned better.
-
After years of wear, we decided to repaint the old furniture to give it a fresh look.
-
She plans to repaint her bedroom in a lighter shade to brighten up the space.
Synonyms
854
1.0
To put coloured liquid on a surface to protect or change how it looks
41
3.2
To change the inside of a room by adding new paint, wallpaper, or furniture
9
6.1
Make furniture or floors look new by removing old paint and putting on new paint
1
2.5
Put paint on something to make it look better
1
3.4
To make something a different shade by painting, dyeing, or editing
1
3.5
To put a new layer of paint or finish on something already painted
1
6.2
To paint over an existing layer to cover or change it
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Repaint comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word paint meaning 'to put colour on something'. So to repaint is to paint something again to refresh or change how it looks.