touch-up

Examples

• All

• We have to do a few paint touch ups, but that's OK and it has amazing RGB.

• No one is perfect enough to put on the front of a magazine without some airbrush touch-ups or Photoshop.

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• Ready for a little paint touch up and off we go.

• But you will have to be doing constant touch ups throughout the day to maintain the look.

• Yeah, it's time for a touch-up, my old friend.

  Creepshow 2 (1987)

• Give it a touch-up down here.

  The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

• We better do a few touch-ups before you have some serious trouble.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Ooh, looks like she needs a touch-up.

  Camille (2008)

• - All I needed was a touch-up.

  Ed Wood (1994)

• In my case, I elected to ignore it for one year, then bought some touch-up paint and fixed it myself.

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Synonyms

B

beautification

vstouch-up

7 4.2

Making a place or thing look nicer

is specifically a small repair or improvement rather than a broad makeover

F

fix-up

vstouch-up

1 3.4

A small job to make something look or work better

focuses more on small surface improvements for appearance

D

detailing

vstouch-up

3.8

Work that adds small decorative parts to make something look better

is about broader small repairs and surface work rather than fine design work

T

tittivation

vstouch-up

9.9

Small changes that make a room or thing look nicer

includes small repairs as well as decorative improvements

P

prettification

vstouch-up

7.4

Making something look nicer without changing how it really is

can be a minor repair or real improvement, not only superficial change

Antonyms

D

deterioration

43 5.9

A slow change when something like a building or a person's health becomes worse

How Extensive

restoration

15 4.2

to overhaul

35 4.6

refurbishment

4 3.7

touch-up

8 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology