- to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
- to alter (a negative or positive) after development by adding or removing lines, lightening areas, etc., with a pencil, brush, or knife.
- to dye, tint, or bleach (a new growth of hair) to match or blend with the color of an earlier and previously dyed growth.
- an added touch to a picture, painting, paint job, etc., by way of improvement or alteration.
- an act or instance of dyeing new growth of hair to blend with previously dyed hair.
- to restore, correct, or improve (a painting, make-up, etc) with new touches
- to alter (a negative or print) by painting over blemishes or adding details
- to make small finishing improvements to
- to detach small flakes from (a stone) in order to make a tool
- the art or practice of retouching
- a detail that is the result of retouching
- a photograph, painting, etc, that has been retouched
- fine percussion to shape flakes of stone into usable tools
