The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unpaint \Un*paint"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + paint.]
To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting.
--Parnell.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To remove paint from. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To efface.
Usage examples of "unpaint".
As the glasstubes, when unpainted, did not prevent the cotyledons from becoming greatly bowed, it cannot be supposed that the caps of very thin tinfoil did so, except through the exclusion of the light.
They were still unpainted, the terra-cotta figures showing as terra-cotta and the plaster of Paris white.
Beside the threshold Alain saw an unpainted wooden shield, a helmet, and a spear.
Beyond was a long, low room whose unpainted plaster walls were lined with raw fibre-glass packing cases.
Cleggett directed it toward the door of an unpainted toolhouse, a temporary structure near one of the immense stone pillars from which the bridge is swung.
Then he inserted the tin funnel into a small hole in the uppermost surface of the unpainted, oblong box and dropped in twenty or more of the little pieces of ice.
From under a heap of debris, which had completely hidden it, towards the forward part of the vessel, the workmen unearthed an unpainted oblong box, almost seven feet in length.
The half hundred men of the gang threw themselves upon the supper the Chinese cooks had set out in the shed of the eating-house, long as a bowling alley, unpainted, crude, the seats benches, the table covered with oil cloth.
Nevertheless, the whole 9 taken together differed plainly in their degree of curvature from the many free seedlings, and from some which were wrapped in unpainted skin, growing in the same two pots.
The walls of bare unpainted planks were studded here and there with great wooden pins, placed at irregular intervals and heights, from which hung over-tunics, wallets, whips, bridles, and saddles.
The first was a misshapen, squalid man with cruel, cunning eyes and a shock of tangled red hair, bearing in his hands a small unpainted cross, which he held high so that all men might see it.
A short distance away on the same spit of land sat a square, unpainted building from which issued a sound she thought she recognized.
All of the buildings were unpainted and the shacks looked as if they would fall down in the slightest wind.
The moment they stepped across the veranda and through the unpainted door, she knew what the place was.
A village of morose people living furtively in small unpainted houses as if in beleaguered towers.