Retouch

Definition: Retouch

Retouch

Verb

1. Give retouches to; of hair; "retouch the roots".

2. Alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance; "This photograph has been retouched!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "retouch" was first used: 1650. (references)

Synonym: Retouch

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Retouch

Books

• How to Retouch and Spot Negatives and Prints. (reference)

• Light Up Your Darkroom: How to Tone, Tine and Retouch Black-And-White Prints (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

retushoj, lyej (anoint, black, color, colour, daub, dye, lubricate, miniate, overspread, paint, smear, tint, whitewash), korrigjoj (blue pencil, correct, emend, make amends, re establish, readjust, rearrange, reclaim, rectify, red pencil, reform, repair, retrieve, straighten, vet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch, touch up, trim), ‏نمق (adore, embellish, lard), ‏نقح (blue pencil, emend, expurgate, file, rectify, refine, revise, touch up), ‏تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, revision, sublimation, urbanity), ‏تنميق, ‏تنقيح (amendment, correction, emendation, redaction, review, revise, revision). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), ретуширам, поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp). (various references)

Chinese 

修饰. (various references)

Czech

retušovat (touch up), opravit (amend, correct, emend, fix, improve, mend, recondition, rectify, refit, renovate, repair, revise, touch up). (various references)

Danish

retouchere (revise, touch up). (various references)

Dutch

retoucheren (touch up). (various references)

Esperanto

retuŝi (touch up). (various references)

Farsi 

رتوشه کردن(درعکاسی), دستکاری کردن (Manipulate). (various references)

Finnish

retusoida (touch up), parannella (edit, revise, touch up). (various references)

French

retoucher (revise). (various references)

German

retuschieren (touch up). (various references)

Greek 

ρετουσάρω (touch up). (various references)

Hungarian

retusálás, szépítés (euphemism, extenuation, palliation), retus, javítgatás. (various references)

Italian

ritoccare (readjust). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リズム運動 (lithium, lycee, recession, redial, redirect, redirection, reduction, reseller, reset, resolver, resort, resort hotel, resort wear, resource, retire, return, return match, return pass, rhythmic exercises, rizotto, villa), レスキュー隊 (label, ladies, ladies first, lady, Lady Borden, laisser-faire, lead, led, leg warmers, lesbian, lesser panda, lesson, letter, letter facsimile, letterhead, lettering, lettuce, medical practitioners' receipt for health insurance claim, medical prescription, ready-made, reception, red, red purge, red tape, Redmond, rescue squad, resolution, resonance, respirator, response, rest, rest house, rest room, restaurant, restaurant hotel, restaurant theater, retort, rhetoric, sticker, tow truck, wrestling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リタッチ , レタッチ . (various references)

Manx

mynlhiasaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin

etouchray.(various references)

Portuguese

retocar (alter, brush up, finish, put the last hand to, touch up). (various references)

Romanian

retuşare, retuşa (go over), retuş, drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, season, set to rights, spice, tinker, vamp up). (various references)

Russian 

ретушировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

retuširati (touch up). (various references)

Spanish

retocar (alter, freshen, go over, refresh, refreshing, touch up). (various references)

Swedish

retuschera (touch up). (various references)

Turkish

rötuş yapmak (finish, repaint, touch up), rötuş (retouching, touch), düzeltme yapmak (touch up), düzeltme (adjustment, amendment, correcting, correction, emendation, improvement, melioration, proofreading, readjustment, recension, rectification, refinement, reformation, trimming). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити поправки, ретушувати, ретушування (shading), ретуш, поправка (allowance, correction, corrective). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sửa sang, sự sửa lại nét sửa sang. (various references)

retoucher. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "retouch": retouched, retoucher, retouchers, retouches, retouching. (additional references)

Words containing "retouch": unretouched. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Retouch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Raouche, refought, retout, Revoch, Revtech, Ritech. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: couther, toucher.

-1 letter: couter, hector, rochet, rotche, rouche, tocher, touche, troche.

-2 letters: chert, chore, chute, court, couth, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, ocher, ochre, other, outer, outre, recto, recut, retch, rotch, route, routh, ruche, teuch, throe, torch, touch, truce.

-3 letters: cero, core, cote, cure, curt, cute, echo, ecru, etch, euro, hero, hoer, hour, hurt, ouch, rote, roue.

+1 letter: couthier, outreach, scouther, touchers, touchier.

+2 letters: cartouche, eutrophic, outcharge, outpreach, retouched, retoucher, retouches, scouthers, truncheon.

+3 letters: cartouches, coauthored, courthouse, grouchiest, outcharged, outcharges, outcharmed, outmarched, outmarches, outreached, outreaches, outstretch, retouchers, retouching, scouthered, truncheons.

+4 letters: breechclout, champertous, countermyth, countershot, courthouses, euchromatic, euchromatin, neuropathic, outpreached, outpreaches, outreaching, photoreduce, scouthering, thermoduric, treacherous, truncheoned, unretouched, urochordate.

+5 letters: breechclouts, butterscotch, countercheck, countermarch, countermyths, counterpunch, countershots, creaturehood, euchromatins, executorship, heteroecious, horticulture, luteotrophic, neurochemist, neutrophilic, outpreaching, outstretched, outstretches, peritrichous, photocurrent, photonuclear, photoreduced, photoreduces, picturephone, thermocouple, thundercloud, truncheoning, turbocharged, turbocharger, underclothes, unrhetorical, urethroscope, urochordates.