retouch
verb (used with object)
to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
retouches
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present tense formof retouch (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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There are retouches to the original tale, updates to conform to modern sensibilities and a few winking asides to the audience, but the basic recipe of a whodunit spoof is preserved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
She examines it, retouches it, and notices that that upper lip is remarkably similar to the Mona Lisa.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2021
Once inside, Hannah retouches her makeup and arranges herself on the couch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2015
Following Mass, Francis will remove seals on papal apartments so that crews can do small retouches before the new pope moves in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
