Touch Up

Definition: Touch Up

Touch Up

Verb

1. 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.
 

Synonym: Touch Up

Improvement

Touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair; (restore); put in order; (arrange).

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: Touch Up

Business

Some institutions would like to respond to the need for professionals wanting to touch up on their skills by offering evening courses or quality distance learning programs, and it is in this field that foreign companies and educational institutions may find attractive commercial opportunities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "touch up": To touch up ♦ touch up paint ♦ touch up smb.'s memory. Additional references.

Albanian

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, trap, trick out, trim, water down), përfundoj (accomplish, bring closer, button up, clinch, close, come out, complete, conclude, determine, do, end, finalize, finish, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, lapse, perfect, push through, put through, reason, result, terminate, transact, wear), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, tune up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch, trim), ‏نقح (blue pencil, emend, expurgate, file, rectify, refine, retouch, revise), ‏رحم (belly, matrix, womb). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям леко кон с шпори, удрям леко кон с камшик, освежавам цветовете на, оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, jazz, liven, quicken, relive, smarten up, vitalize, vivify, warm, warm up, zip), правя дребни поправки, правя дребни подобрения, подсилвам (buttress, enforce, fortify, invigorate, punctuate, recruit, reinforce, stiffen, strengthen, tone up, undergird). (various references)

Chinese 

描 (depict, to copy, to touch up, to trace). (various references)

Czech

upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, treat, trim), retušovat (retouch), osahávat (paw), opravit (amend, correct, emend, fix, improve, mend, recondition, rectify, refit, renovate, repair, retouch, revise). (various references)

Danish

retouchere (retouch, revise). (various references)

Dutch

retoucheren (retouch). (various references)

Esperanto

retuŝi (retouch). (various references)

Finnish

retusoida (retouch), parannella (edit, retouch, revise), kohentaa (furbish up). (various references)

French

retoucher (touch). (various references)

German

retuschieren (retouch), ausbessern (correct, darn, improve, mend, patch, patch up, refit, repair, restore, to darn, to mend, to patch, to refit, to remodel, to repair). (various references)

Greek 

ρετουσάρω (retouch). (various references)

Hungarian

retusál (retouch, to retouch, to touch up), kijavít (correct, make good, recondition, refit, sub-edit, to correct, to make good, to mend, to piece up, to plaster up, to put right, to recondition, to refit, to repair, to revise, to set right, to set sg to rights, to set to rights, to sew up, to sub, to touch up). (various references)

Indonesian

memperbaguskan (embellish), memperbagus. (various references)

Italian

ritocco (finishing touch), ritoccare (readjust, retouch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出直し (adjustment), タス通信 (assault, cigarettes, tack, tag out, tag up, tap, tap dance, TASS News Agency, tax, tax haven, tobacco, touch, touchscreen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

でなおし (adjustment), タッチアップ (tag up). (various references)

Manx

aavreckey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ouchtay upay

Portuguese

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

Romanian

stimula memoria, finisa un tablou, finisa o lucrare. (various references)

Russian 

отделать, поправить, подкрасить (color, colour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

retuširati (retouch), doterati (adjust, drive, furbish, lick into shape, nidge, polish, regulate, smarten, spruce, straighten out). (various references)

Spanish

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

Swedish

tona (sound, tint, tone, touch), retuschering, retuschera (retouch), fräscha upp (freshen), finslipa (polish smooth), bättra på (Duff, fake, improve, improve on, improve upon, refresh). (various references)

Turkish

yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, vamp up), rötuş yapmak (finish, repaint, retouch), düzeltme yapmak (retouch), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references)

Turkmen 

yюyklandyrmak (brush up, refresh). (various references)

Ukrainian

виправляти (amend, beet, better, castigate, chasten, correct, emend, oversee, re establish, reclaim, rectify, redress, reform, remedy, retrieve), нагадати, підганяти (bustle, fit on, flog, goad, hurry, prod, push, whip). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: touchup.

-2 letters: couth, cutup, pouch, touch.

-3 letters: chop, coup, ouch, ouph, phot, phut, pout, thou, toph.

-4 letters: cop, cot, cup, cut, hop, hot, hup, hut, opt, out, pht, poh, pot, put, tho, top, tup, upo.

-5 letters: ho, oh, op, to, uh, up, ut.

+1 letter: outpunch, touchups.

+3 letters: outpunched, outpunches.

+4 letters: outpunching.

+5 letters: counterpunch.