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retouch
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb retouch has 2 senses
- retouch(v = verb.change) Array - give retouches to (hair); "retouch the roots" is one way to color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
- retouch(v = verb.change) touch up - alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!" is one way to enhance
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
retouch, v. t. [Pref. re- + touch: cf. F. retoucher.].
- To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay. [1913 Webster]
- To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork. [1913 Webster]
retouch, n.
A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
retouch, v. & n.
--v.tr. improve or repair (a composition, picture, photographic negative or print, etc.) by fresh touches or alterations.
--n. the act or an instance of retouching.
--v.tr. improve or repair (a composition, picture, photographic negative or print, etc.) by fresh touches or alterations.
--n. the act or an instance of retouching.
Derivative
retoucher n.
Etymology
prob. f. F retoucher (as RE-, TOUCH)
THESAURUS
retouch
adjust, adulterate, brighten up, brush up, cook, correct, doctor, fake, finish, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, improve, juggle, load, manipulate, pack, plant, polish, polish up, recondition, refresh, renovate, repair, restore, revive, rig, rub up, salt, shine, sophisticate, spruce, spruce up, stack, tamper with, tone up, touch up, vamp, vamp upROGET THESAURUS
retouch
Restoration
VB return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.
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