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Past tense of retouch

regular verb

The past tense of retouch is retouched. The past participle is also retouched.

Forms of retouch

Base form (V1)retouch /ɹɪˈtʌtʃ/
Past tense (V2)retouched
Past participle (V3)retouched
Present participleretouching
Third person singularretouches

Retouched in a sentence

  • Bifacially retouched knives used to deflesh hides and to cut meat or skin can be distinguished by their edge angle and partially by their shape.1982, Christopher Carr, Handbook on soil resistivity surveying, page 284. From the entry deflesh
  • However we excluded from analysis all retouched pieces other than backed in PGS because we cannot assign tools such as scaled pieces and denticulates to one of the two assemblages.2015 July 11, “The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Stone Age Technologies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry denticulates

Meaning of retouch

  1. verb To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
  2. verb To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
  3. verb To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.

Full definition of retouch

Questions about the past tense of retouch

What is the past tense of retouch?
The past tense of retouch is retouched.
What is the past participle of retouch?
The past participle of retouch is retouched.
Is retouch a regular or irregular verb?
Retouch is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: retouch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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