to apply colour, pigment, paint, or cosmetics to (something)
to apply (something) with a movement resembling that used in painting
to depict (somebody or something) as having specified or implied characteristics
He's not as black as he's painted
to represent (a subject) in colours on a surface by applying paint
to describe or evoke as if by painting
to represent (something or somebody) in colours on a surface by applying pigments
to decorate (something) by painting
(+ out/over) to conceal (something) by covering it with paint
to describe or evoke (something) as if by painting
Her novel paints glowing pictures of rural life
to practise the art of painting
informal to go out and celebrate exuberantly