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To erase with a brush what a brush once promised.
means To remove, strip, or undo paint from a surface, or to mentally cancel out a painted image.
from A logical mashup of the prefix un- (Old English, meaning reverse or undo) and paint (from Latin pingere, to adorn), describing the rare act of reversing what art adds.
Rare verbDictionaries barely acknowledge it exists.
RestorersProfessional conservators effectively unpaint old overpainted masterpieces.
Figurative usePoets unpaint scenes the mind too vividly drew.