touch up

I

delineate lightly, refine, amend, improve, correct (see improvement).

II

Tactile sense

Nouns

1. touch, tact[us], contact, impact, taction; tactility, palpability, tangibility, tangency; feeling, sensation; manipulation, massage, fondling; stroke, tap, feel, brush, graze, glance, tickle, caress, kiss, osculation, lick, pat, rap, hit, handclasp. Slang, soft touch, feeling up.

2. hand, finger, palm, paw, toe, tongue; feeler, antenna, flipper, vibrissa, palp[us], barbel. See body.

3. reflexology, shiatsu.

Verbs

1. touch, feel, contact, handle, finger, thumb, palm, paw, toe; caress, kiss, lick, lap, pat, tap; fumble, grope; brush, graze, glance, skim; palpate, manipulate, wield, massage, rub, knead. Slang, cop a feel.

2. border on, be contiguous to, impinge, meet, reach, come to, abut, adjoin, neighbor, juxtapose. See nearness, contact.

Adjectives — touching, feeling, tactual, tactile; tangible, touchable, palpable; lambent, licking; adjacent, bordering, tangent, abutting, neighboring, contiguous; affecting, moving, melting, distressing, heartrending, pitiable, tender, pathetic, impressive.

Quotation — Our Sense is such, that, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch (John Milton).

II

(Roget's IV) v.

Syn. renew, modify, rework; see remodel , repair .

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To improve by making minor changes or additions: polish, retouch. See BETTER.