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- verb Present participle of
repaint .
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Examples
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The repainting is going to have to wait until summer.
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If the mine had been sprung, the part of the hotel nearest to the road must have fallen; and as the landlord had only bought the house this year, and had spent much money not only in repainting and decorating it, but also in adding to it, its destruction would have been absolute ruin to him.
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Hume and his ilk, along with Fox new’s resources, have been a God send to the administration in repainting the issues and successfully feeding it to much of the American people.
Think Progress » Hume Argues Persistent Violence Helps Iraq Make Political Progress 2006
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He wasn't especially careful with his repainting, which is a clue to how closely he expected people to look.
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010
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He wasn't especially careful with his repainting, which is a clue to how closely he expected people to look.
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010
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He wasn't especially careful with his repainting, which is a clue to how closely he expected people to look.
James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010
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This last fault may, however, be due to repainting, which is so thick that it is useless to speak of the present colour.
Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell
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What meant the fathers by establishing this _perfectly living_ institution before the church, -- this institution which needs no repairing nor repainting, which is continually enlarged and repaired by its growth?
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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CentrePoint board member, Cr Allan Ewin, said that the repainting was the start of an ongoing maintenance program planned for the centre.
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And after a year or so, there can be significant additional costs, such as repainting and redoing landscaping.
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