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Retouch   Listen
verb
Retouch  v. t.  
1.
To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
2.
(Photog.) To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... to which posterity will have nothing to say. This is especially true of work recast by men in mature age. Writers and painters (sculptors luckily are restrained by the nature of their art—unless they deliberately go and break up their work with a hammer) retouch and change, in the years when they have become more critical and less creative, what they think to be the insufficient achievements of their youth: yet it is the vigour and the simplicity of their youthful work which other men often prefer to remember. On this account any ...
— On Something • H. Belloc



Words linked to "Retouch" :   photography, colourize, colorise, color in, colour in, picture taking, colourise, enhance



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