repaint
verb (used with object)
to paint again.
had repainted
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past perfectof repaint.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She says they told officers they were suspicious that Cooper had repainted the outside of his windows and he had been spotted burning items in his back garden.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
It couldn’t have taken long: The day before, Bunny McDiarmid and the crew had repainted the rainbow and dove on the ship’s bow.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
As Michael Silver revealed in a viral Twitter thread, Brown repeatedly tried to play “with his old helmet, which he had since had repainted with colors approximating—but not completely mimicking—the Raiders’ silver-and-black design.”
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2019
To give the living room a focal point, designer Jamie Elliott McPherson created a faux fireplace with an antique mantel that he stripped and had repainted in an aged, distressed finish.
From Southern Living ● Jul. 15, 2010
He noticed the peeling paint on the shutters that his dad had repainted just last year, and the brown stain on the driveway where his mom had tried to refinish an old table.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
