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Retouch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To add new details or touches to for correction or improvement.

v. To improve or change (a photographic negative or print), as by adding details or removing flaws.

v. To color (recent growth of hair) to match hair that was tinted, dyed, or bleached at an earlier date.

v. Archaeology To modify (a flaked stone tool) by secondary flaking along the cutting edge.

verb-intransitive. To give or make retouches.

n. The act, process, or an instance of retouching.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.

v. To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.

v. To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.

n. The act of retouching.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise.

v. To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.

n. A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To touch or touch up again; improve by new touches; revise; specifically, in the fine arts, to improve, as a painting, by new touches; go over a second time, as a work of art, in order to restore or strengthen a faded part, make additions, or remove blemishes, for its general improvement.

n. A repeated touch; an additional touch given in revision; specifically, in the fine arts, additional work done on that which might previonsly have been regarded as finished.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. give retouches to (hair)

v. alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance

Word Usage

"And yet, the advertisers must have felt compelled otherwise to strongly "retouch"--airbrush is the industry term of the digital process of "photoshopping"--Roberts' and Turlington's photo shoots."

Verb Form

retouched retouches retouching

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

colour colourize colorise color color in

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

revise renovate

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