Definition of "retouch" [re•touch]

• To add new details or touches to for correction or improvement. (verb-transitive)
• To improve or change (a photographic negative or print), as by adding details or removing flaws. (verb-transitive)
• To color (recent growth of hair) to match hair that was tinted, dyed, or bleached at an earlier date. (verb-transitive)
• Archaeology To modify (a flaked stone tool) by secondary flaking along the cutting edge. (verb-transitive)
• To give or make retouches. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And yet, the advertisers must have felt compelled otherwise to strongly "retouch"--airbrush is the industry term of the digital process of "photoshopping"--Roberts' and Turlington's photo shoots."
• "I admit I cheated--I had the most tremendous bags under my eyes this morning, which drove to me figure out how to use the "retouch" tool..."
• "A big - no, a huge - draw was that Howell is a professional photographer who knows how to use lighting in flattering ways and discreetly "retouch" photos so that skin tones appear even and blemishes and other flaws disappear."