RETOUCH Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

retouch

verb

Definition of retouch

as in to polish

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Recent Examples of retouch The outside is decorated, too — pay special attention to the wooden cutouts out there, which Erv originally made and a staffer retouched this year. — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 2 Dec. 2025 The video includes a scene of a conservator diligently retouching a paper that has been stained by water damage, an apt metaphor for the ongoing physical (and ideological) labor required to maintain the immutability of these interiors. — Tom McDonough, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025 Design company Canva recently launched its own AI headshot feature, with the goal of offering users a quick way to create realistic headshots and still be able to retouch or restyle them. — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025 To top things off, the car has been finished in a gorgeous coat of British Racing Green, had its chrome trim retouched, and equipped with an electronic rear bike rack. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for retouch

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Increasingly, admissions officers will be drawn less to polish and more to originality of perception.

— Dr. Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Aerie’s loungewear has surprised my mom with its pillowy soft material that looks polished enough to run errands in.

— Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026

Definition of polish

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As a result, Tortorella was fined $100,000 and the Golden Knights were docked a second-round pick in June’s draft.

— Joe Smith, New York Times, 24 July 2026
European regulators have fined Google 890 million euros ($1 billion), alleging the company gives preferential treatment to its own services.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 24 July 2026

Definition of fine

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Others edited footage of themselves dodging police barricades to mimic the popular endless runner mobile game Subway Surfers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
This may be a low-probability event, but edit enough cells—and therapies generally have to edit many—and errors become inevitable.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026

Definition of edit

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La Roja had been the best team of the World Cup and had done so by remaining faithful to itself and its soccer through technique, ability and skill honed through years and years of doing the same thing better than anyone else.

— Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
One of the marvels of this novel is how effortlessly such sentences land, despite being honed to perfection.

— Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of hone

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Now, an intensifying war has again closed off significant access to Persian Gulf oil, reinjecting chaos into the market.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Authorities arrested presidential candidates, opposition figures, business leaders and journalists ahead of that vote as the government intensified its criminalization of dissent.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of intensify

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Lyons told investors in July 2025 after those sales that Fiserv would need to revise its guidance.

— Matt Peterson, CNBC, 21 July 2026
The June jobs report showed leisure and hospitality jobs plunged by 61,000 positions – a number so dumbfounding that economists widely expect that to get revised .

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

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