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re·touch

(rē-tŭch′)

v. re·touched, re·touch·ing, re·touch·es

v.tr.

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

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

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

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

v.intr.

To give or make retouches.

n. (rē′tŭch′, rē-tŭch′)

The act, process, or an instance of retouching.

re·touch′er n.

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retouch

(riːˈtʌtʃ)

vb (tr)

1. (Art Terms) to restore, correct, or improve (a painting, make-up, etc) with new touches

2. (Photography) photog to alter (a negative or print) by painting over blemishes or adding details

3. to make small finishing improvements to

4. (Archaeology) archaeol to detach small flakes from (a stone) in order to make a tool

5. (Art Terms) the art or practice of retouching

6. (Photography) the art or practice of retouching

7. (Art Terms) a detail that is the result of retouching

8. (Photography) a detail that is the result of retouching

9. (Art Terms) a photograph, painting, etc, that has been retouched

10. (Photography) a photograph, painting, etc, that has been retouched

11. (Archaeology) archaeol fine percussion to shape flakes of stone into usable tools

reˈtouchable adj

reˈtoucher n

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re•touch

(v. riˈtʌtʃ; n. ˈriˌtʌtʃ, riˈtʌtʃ)

v.t.

1. to improve with new touches, details, or the like; touch up, as a painting or makeup.

2. to alter (a photograph) after development by adding or removing lines, lightening areas, etc.

3. to tint or bleach (a new growth of hair) to match previously dyed hair.

4. an added touch, as to a painting, by way of improvement or alteration.

5. an act or instance of retouching.

[1675–85; < Middle French retoucher=re- re- + toucher to touch]

re•touch′er, n.

retouch

Past participle: retouched
Gerund: retouching

Imperative
retouch
retouch

Present
I retouch
you retouch
he/she/it retouches
we retouch
you retouch
they retouch

Preterite
I retouched
you retouched
he/she/it retouched
we retouched
you retouched
they retouched

Present Continuous
I am retouching
you are retouching
he/she/it is retouching
we are retouching
you are retouching
they are retouching

Present Perfect
I have retouched
you have retouched
he/she/it has retouched
we have retouched
you have retouched
they have retouched

Past Continuous
I was retouching
you were retouching
he/she/it was retouching
we were retouching
you were retouching
they were retouching

Past Perfect
I had retouched
you had retouched
he/she/it had retouched
we had retouched
you had retouched
they had retouched

Future
I will retouch
you will retouch
he/she/it will retouch
we will retouch
you will retouch
they will retouch

Future Perfect
I will have retouched
you will have retouched
he/she/it will have retouched
we will have retouched
you will have retouched
they will have retouched

Future Continuous
I will be retouching
you will be retouching
he/she/it will be retouching
we will be retouching
you will be retouching
they will be retouching

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been retouching
you have been retouching
he/she/it has been retouching
we have been retouching
you have been retouching
they have been retouching

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been retouching
you will have been retouching
he/she/it will have been retouching
we will have been retouching
you will have been retouching
they will have been retouching

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been retouching
you had been retouching
he/she/it had been retouching
we had been retouching
you had been retouching
they had been retouching

Conditional
I would retouch
you would retouch
he/she/it would retouch
we would retouch
you would retouch
they would retouch

Past Conditional
I would have retouched
you would have retouched
he/she/it would have retouched
we would have retouched
you would have retouched
they would have retouched

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Verb	1.	retouch - give retouches to (hair); "retouch the roots" color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
	2.	retouch - alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!" touch up photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs enhance - make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

retouch

verb

To improve by making minor changes or additions:

polish, touch up.

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retouch

[ˈriːˈtʌtʃ] VT → retocar

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Now came some more chamber-maids and retouched the sidewalk, and afterward wiped the marble steps with damp cloths and finished by dusting them off with feather brushes.

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On the morrow Santa Clara too was retouched more than once.

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Fancy, then, the difference to them in looking over a vulgus which has been carefully touched and retouched by themselves and others, and which must bring them a sort of dreamy pleasure, as if they'd met the thought or expression of it somewhere or another - before they were born perhaps--and that of cutting up, and making picture-frames round all your and my false quantities, and other monstrosities.

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Quite unmoved she retouches and replenishes the contents of the bowl with her little spatula.

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