Retouch vs Refine - What's the difference?
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To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
(archaeology) To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
The act of retouching.
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
As verbs the difference between retouch and refine
is that retouch is to improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws while refine is .As a noun retouch
is the act of retouching.retouch
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(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.