retouch

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: re=touch

CIDE DICTIONARY

retouch, v. t. [Pref. re- + touch: cf. F. retoucher.].

•  To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.  [1913 Webster]
•  To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.  [1913 Webster]

retouch, n. 

 A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

retouch, v. & n.
--v.tr. improve or repair (a composition, picture, photographic negative or print, etc.) by fresh touches or alterations.
--n. the act or an instance of retouching.

Derivative

retoucher n.

Etymology

prob. f. F retoucher (as RE-, TOUCH)

THESAURUS

retouch

adjust, adulterate, brighten up, brush up, cook, correct, doctor, fake, finish, fix, freshen, furbish, furbish up, improve, juggle, load, manipulate, pack, plant, polish, polish up, recondition, refresh, renovate, repair, restore, revive, rig, rub up, salt, shine, sophisticate, spruce, spruce up, stack, tamper with, tone up, touch up, vamp, vamp up

ROGET THESAURUS

retouch

Restoration

VB return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.