Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To obliterate by painting over. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To describe, possibly so as to misrepresent.
Usage examples of "paint out".
When Marten heard about the accident, he got drunk and went to his studio to paint out his grief.
Genghis said, snatching the brush and the can of paint out of their hands.
He took the sign and the paint out into the yard and carefully daubed on it while Gina looked over his shoulder with interest.
Even if he phoned his decorators now to come and paint out the graffiti he knew they wouldn't turn out till the morning if they turned out at all, bloody obdurate British workmen.
Just tell me this: Do I have to paint out anything I've already done?
And it was a simple truth, that Onrack had grown skilled in the sorcery of paint out of that desire to be apart, to be alone.
The elevator girls wear gray silk Russian blouses and the kind of flop-over berets artists used to wear to keep the paint out of their hair.