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paint the town red

US pronunciation
American soundpaint the town red
paintthetownred
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paint - the - town - red -> paint the town red

Myanmar meaning

(idm) ပျော်ပွဲကြီးကျင်းပသည်။

Full entry

paint /peÇnt/ n

၁။ (က) [U] (သုတ်ဆေး၊ မှုတ်ဆေး စသည်) ဆေး။ White/ black/ yellow paint ❍ give the door a fresh coat of paint ❍ The paint is still wet (ie It has not dried yet). (ခ) [U] ဆေးသား။ The paint is starting to peel off.
၂။ paints [pl] ဆေးရောင်စုံ။ a box/ set of oil-paints ❍ The artist brought his paints with him.
v
၁။ ဆေးသုတ်သည်။ paint a door/ wall/ house ❍ paint the ceiling white.
၂။ (က) ဆေးရေးသည်။ ပန်းချီရေးသည်။ ရေးဆွဲသည်။ paint in oils/ water-colours. ❍ paint a picture/a portrait/ a landscape ❍ Someone had painted a beard on the poster of the prime minister. ❍ My sister paints well (ie is a good artist). (ခ) (စာပန်းချီ) ခြယ်မှုန်း သည်။ (fig ) In her latest novel she paints a gloomy picture of life in the next century.
၃။ (dated or joc ) ခြယ်မှုန်းသည်။ She spends hours painting her face.
❏ paint sth out [PHRV ] ဆေးထပ်သုတ်၍ ဖျောက်သည်။ ဆေးဖြင့်ပိတ်သည်။ Some of the original figures seem to have been painted out.
❏ paint over sth [PHRV ] ဆေးဖြင့်ဖုံးသည်။ paint over the dirty marks on the wall.
❏ paint the town red [IDM ] (infml) ပျော်ပွဲကြီး ကျင်းပသည်။

More examples
  • She was painting her nails.
  • They followed the white arrows painted on the road.
  • Wash the walls before you start to paint.
  • I painted a view of the lake.
  • He started painting professionally at an early age.
  • The film tries to paint an accurate picture of what life is really like for these people.
Synonyms
cover, coat, smother, dip, smear, spread, acrylic, brush, capture, catch, catch a likeness, chroma, color, coloring, compose, cosmetic, cover up, daub, decorate, delineate, depict, design, draft, draw, dye, emulsion, enamel, figure, flat, fresco, gloss, gloss over, greasepaint, latex, limn, makeup, oil, ornament, outline, overlay, picture, pigment, portray, put on coats, render, represent, rouge, shade, show, sketch, slap on, slather, splatter, stain, stipple, swab, tempera, tint, tinted covering, touch up, undercoat, varnish, veneer, wash, wax
Antonyms
reveal, strip, uncover, whiten
Cross references
covercoatsmotherdipsmearspreadacrylicbrushcapturecatchcatch a likenesschromacolorcoloringcomposecosmeticcover updaubdecoratedelineatedepictdesigndraftdrawdyeemulsionenamelfigure
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