RETOUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retouch mean? 

• RETOUCH (verb)
  The verb RETOUCH has 2 senses:

1. give retouches to (hair)

2. alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance

  Familiarity information: RETOUCH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETOUCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they retouch    ... he / she / it retouches   
Past simple: retouched   
Past participle: retouched   
-ing form: retouching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give retouches to (hair)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

retouch the roots

Hypernyms (to "retouch" is one way to...):

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

retouch; touch up

Context example:

This photograph has been retouched!

Hypernyms (to "retouch" is one way to...):

enhance (make better or more attractive)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch—all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement—we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)