retouch

Plural: retouches

Verb

Verb Forms: retouched, retouching, retouches

• To improve or make small alterations to something, especially a photo.
• give retouches to (hair)
  • "retouch the roots"
• alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance
  • "This photograph has been retouched!"
• To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
• To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
• To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.

Noun

• The act of retouching.

Examples

• He tried to retouch his strategy, hoping to perfect his word placement.

Synonyms

touch up

Anagrams of retouch