airbrushnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈeə.brʌʃ/us/ˈer.brʌʃ/a machine that spreads paint using air pressure, used for painting or for delicate improvement work on photographs
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Photography
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- carousel
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- low-resolution
- negative
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
- superimpose
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airbrushverb [ T ]
uk/ˈeə.brʌʃ/us/ˈer.brʌʃ/to use an airbrush to cover or improve the appearance of something:
pictures of airbrushed models
It's so obvious in the photo that her wrinkles have been airbrushed out (= removed from the photograph with an airbrush).
to represent something as being different from how it really is:
It's almost as if the revolutionary leaders have been airbrushed out of history (= ignored by the official version of history ).
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Photography
- aperture
- camera
- camera obscura
- camera-shy
- capture
- carousel
- hologram
- holography
- kinetoscope
- lo-res
- low-resolution
- negative
- selfie
- sharp
- shoot
- shutter
- slide
- SLR camera
- snapshot
- superimpose
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Painting, drawing & printing