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touch-up
[ tuhch-uhp ]
noun
- an act or instance of touching up:
Her makeup needed a touch-up.
touch up
verb
- to put extra or finishing touches to
- to enhance, renovate, or falsify by putting extra touches to
to touch up a photograph
- to stimulate or rouse as by a tap or light blow
- slang.to touch or caress (someone), esp to arouse sexual feelings
noun
- a renovation or retouching, as of a painting
Word History and Origins
Origin of touch-up1
Idioms and Phrases
Make minor changes or improvements, as in This wall needs some touching up but not complete repainting . [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
Very carefully and cleverly she began to whiten her face, to touch up her eyes and her narrow, definite eyebrows.
With a similar snapper did Mr. Fogg touch up each one of his stories of success.
Lady Archibald asked him if he was going to touch up her portrait at the last sitting.
Shakspeare might surely be allowed to touch up scenes, of which the mass might be written by Fletcher.
I'm going to have to touch up the tresses pretty soon or I won't be a redhead any more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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