bepaint

B3E1P3A1I1N1T1

verb

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.

OriginEnglish paint ← Middle English bi- ← Old English be- →
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Meanings

verbbepaint (third-person singular simple present bepaints, present participle bepainting, simple past and past participle bepainted)

present singular third person bepaints · participle present bepainting · participle past bepainted · past bepainted

  1. transitiveTo paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.

    Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

    c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-Germanic*bi-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*bi-
  8. Old Englishbe-
  9. Middle Englishbi-
  10. Englishbe-
  11. Englishpaint
  12. Englishbepaint

From be- + paint.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with bepaint

saintpaintcomplaintconstraintauntrestraintfaintquaintrepaintacquaintfeintplaintteintain'tattaintcan'tfresh as painthain'thaintmayn'toverpaintspraint
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Cite this entry
APA

bepaint. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bepaint

MLA

“bepaint.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bepaint. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bepaint,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bepaint.

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