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paint

noun

colouring, colourant, tint, dye, stain, pigment, wash, colour;

varnish.

verb

1 simply paint the ceiling:

colour, apply paint to, decorate, tint, dye, stain, distemper, whitewash, emulsion, gloss, spray, spray-paint, airbrush, roller, coat, cover.

2 soldiers arrested three men who had been painting slogans on a wall:

daub, smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint, airbrush.

3 he was twelve when Modigliani painted him:

portray, picture, paint a picture of, depict, delineate, draw, sketch, represent, catch (a likeness of);

reproduce, illustrate, render.

4 you paint a very stark picture of the suffering:

tell, recount, narrate, set forth/out, outline, sketch, detail, unfold, describe, depict, characterize, evoke, conjure up.

□ paint the town red

celebrate, carouse, enjoy oneself, make merry, have a good/wild time, party, have a party;

North American step out;

informal go out on the town, whoop it up, make whoopee, have a night on the tiles, live it up, have a ball, push the boat out;

dated go on a spree.

paint Oxford Dictionary of English