"paint down" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "paints down",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painted down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painted down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "paint down (third-person singular simple present paints down, present participle painting down, simple past and past participle painted down)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Mollie Gregory, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, page 28:",
          "text": "White actors in blackface were so common that even Shirley Temple was painted down in The Littlest Rebel (1935).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kristen J. Warner, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, page 54:",
          "text": "Producer reaffirms that this Section 14 prohibits the practice commonly referred to as 'painting down'. […] The protests were in opposition to the literal adoption of blackface within Tropic that ultimately disallowed the gainful employment of male African-American actors.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To apply blackface to (an actor)."
      ],
      "id": "en-paint_down-en-verb-6tPVZr--",
      "links": [
        [
          "blackface",
          "blackface"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To apply blackface to (an actor)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Paint it down in resin.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To coat with a substance through painting."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "paint",
          "paint"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To coat with a substance through painting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paint down"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paints down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painted down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "painted down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2015, Mollie Gregory, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, page 28:",
          "text": "White actors in blackface were so common that even Shirley Temple was painted down in The Littlest Rebel (1935).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kristen J. Warner, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, page 54:",
          "text": "Producer reaffirms that this Section 14 prohibits the practice commonly referred to as 'painting down'. […] The protests were in opposition to the literal adoption of blackface within Tropic that ultimately disallowed the gainful employment of male African-American actors.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply blackface to (an actor)."
      ],
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          "blackface",
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        "(transitive) To apply blackface to (an actor)."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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          "text": "Paint it down in resin.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To coat with a substance through painting."
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        "(transitive) To coat with a substance through painting."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "paint down"
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