Akademik

touch up
verb
alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance (Freq. 1)
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This photograph has been retouched!

• Syn: ↑retouch
• Topics: ↑photography, ↑picture taking
• Hypernyms: ↑enhance
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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touch up [phrasal verb]
1 touch up (something) or touch (something) up : to improve (something) by making small changes or additions

She touched up the photographs on the computer.

2 touch (someone) up or touch up (someone) Brit, informal : to touch (someone) in a sexual way

He tried to touch her up [=feel her up] at the party.

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Main Entry: ↑touch

Useful english dictionary. 2012.