touch-up
1 of 2noun
ˈtəch-ˌəp 
: an act or instance of touching up
touch up
2 of 2verb
touched up; touching up; touches up
transitive verb
1
: to improve or perfect by small additional strokes or alterations : fix the minor and usually visible defects or damages of
2
: to stimulate by or as if by a flick of a whip
Word History
First Known Use
Noun
1733, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1
touches up
verb
1
as in subedits
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- subedits
- reedits
- polishes
- anthologizes
- redrafts
- reworks
- perfects
- edits
- reads
- revises
- subs
- revamps
- annotates
- issues
- amends
- rectifies
- emends
- copyedits
- prints
- compiles
- gets out
- corrects
- fact-checks
- blue-pencils
- red-pencils
- publishes
- redacts
- engrosses
- abridges
- recopies
- collects
2
as in flicks
Synonyms & Similar Words
- flicks
- fustigates
- knouts
- straps
- clubs
- quirts
- canes
- cuts
- blackjacks
- cudgels
- hides
- lashes
- works over
- flails
- lams
- slashes
- boxes
- bangs
- scourges
- pistol-whips
- hits
- socks
- cowhides
- clips
- flagellates
- leathers
- slaps
- claps
- whacks
- switches
- smacks
- thwacks
- horsewhips
- flogs
- birches
- rawhides
- punches
- cuffs
- whips
- knocks
- licks
- thrashes
- smites
- swipes
- bops
- whales
- tans
- pounds
- clouts
- clobbers
- thumps
- slugs
- spanks
- threshes
- slates
- swats
- mauls
- pelts
- cracks
- wallops
- bludgeons
- paddles
- pastes
- buffets
- hammers
- belts
- busts
- bashes
- roughs
- pummels
- bats
- bungs
- laces
- lathers
- lambastes
- bastes
- drubs
- fibs
- mangles
- batters
- belabors
- whaps
- pommels
- slogs
- whups
- lambasts
- beats
- whops
- tromps
- moresque
- moresques
- Moreton Bay
- Moreton Bay ash
- Moreton Bay chestnut
- Moreton Bay fig
- Moreton Bay pine
- morfrey
- Morgagni's crypt
- morgan
- Morgan dollar
- morgan dollars
- Morgan Hill
- Morgan le Fay
- morganatic
- morganatically
- morganite
- morganites
- morganize
- morgans
- Morgantown
- morgantowns
- morgays
- morgen
- morgenage