repaint

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/ɹiːˈpeɪnt//ˈɹiːpeɪnt/

verb

To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

“They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.”

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

verbrepaint (third-person singular simple present repaints, present participle repainting, simple past and past participle repainted)

present singular third person repaints · participle present repainting · participle past repainted · past repainted

  1. To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

    to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture

    1 more example

    Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units.

    2022 September 21, “Network News: Freight firms continue repaints on Class 66s”, in RAIL, number 966, page 17
  2. ambitransitivecomputingTo draw or render again on the display.

    To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method[…]

    2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, page 1551
nounrepaint (plural repaints)

plural repaints

  1. The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.

    They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.

    1 more example

    More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.

    2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67
  2. computingThe act of drawing or rendering again on the display.

    WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.

    2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*peyḱ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pinéḱti
  8. Proto-Italic*pingō
  9. Latinpingō
  10. Latinpictus
  11. Vulgar Latin*pinctus
  12. Frenchpeint
  13. Old Frenchpeintier
  14. Middle Englishpeynten
  15. Englishpaint
  16. Englishrepaint

From re- + paint (“verb”).

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Translations

Catalan repintar
  • repintarto paint again
Czech přemalovat
  • přemalovatto paint again
Esperanto repentri, refarbi
  • repentrito paint again
  • refarbito paint again
French repeindre
  • repeindreto paint again
German neu streichen
  • neu streichento paint again
Hungarian újrafest
  • újrafestto paint again
Italian ridipingere
  • ridipingereto paint again
Polish przemalowywać, przemalować
  • przemalowywaćto paint again
  • przemalowaćto paint again
Russian перекра́шивать, перекра́сить
  • перекра́шивать (perekrášivatʹ)to paint again
  • перекра́сить (perekrásitʹ)to paint again
Spanish repintar
  • repintarto paint again
Ukrainian перефарбо́вувати, перефарбува́ти
  • перефарбо́вувати (perefarbóvuvaty)to paint again
  • перефарбува́ти (perefarbuváty)to paint again
Welsh ailbeintio
  • ailbeintioto paint again

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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