Repaint

//ɹiːˈpeɪnt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    The 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."

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

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

  2. 2
    to apply another layer of paint wordnet
  3. 3
    To draw or render again on the display. ambitransitive

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

  4. 4
    paint a particular subject again wordnet

Example

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"She's trying to repaint her house."

Etymology

From re- + paint (“verb”).

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