Repaint

/ɹiːˈpeɪnt/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.
2. (computing, ambitransitive) To draw or render again on the display.
3. The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
4. (computing) The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.

Example Sentences

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

Nearly all of their locomotives have never been repainted, which is as much as 24 years in the case of some of the DB Cargo units.

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

They didn't like the color so we had to do a repaint.

More join us at Colwall and at the lovely station at Great Malvern, although the place is in need of some TLC nowadays. The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.

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.

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Word Forms

• repaints
• repainting
• repainted

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