retouch
verb (used with object)
to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
retouched
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past participleof retouch.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof retouch.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
retouchverb (used with object)to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
Example Sentences
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This work was done by Gardena-based company KC Restoration, which retouched and treated each damaged or cracked tile with the type of care and attention to detail used by painting conservators, Denk said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
He also found scrapers and other retouched pieces known as Mousterian stone artifacts that suggested the cave had been used by Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
Even in studies in which participants knew the photos they were shown on Instagram were retouched and reshaped, adolescent girls still felt worse about their bodies after viewing them.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Norway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched.
From BBC ● May 14, 2023
He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
