retouch
Etymology

From .

Pronunciation
  • (verb) enPR: rē-tŭchʹ, IPA: /ɹɪˈtʌtʃ/
  • (noun) enPR: rēʹ-tŭch, IPA: /ˈɹiːtʌtʃ/
Verb

retouch (retouches, present participle retouching; simple past and past participle retouched)

  1. (transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
    • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC ↗, page 201 ↗:
      For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
      Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
      Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
      Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
      To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
      And give more beauties than he takes away.
  2. (transitive) To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
  3. (archaeology) To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
Conjugation Translations Noun

retouch (plural retouches)

  1. The act of retouching.
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