TOUCH UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does touch up mean? 

• TOUCH UP (verb)
  The verb TOUCH UP has 1 sense:

1. alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance

  Familiarity information: TOUCH UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUCH UP (verb)

Sense 1

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 "touch up" 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 

You'd like to know whether I stop her hair from falling off, or dye it, or touch up her complexion, or improve her eyebrows, wouldn't you?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But, my dear, we must touch up the Colonel to do some thing to the parsonage, and make it comfortable for them, before Lucy goes to it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)