airbrush
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airbrush (plural airbrushes)
- A miniature, handheld paint sprayer, powered by compressed air or other gas, used for delicate, artistic painting, or sometimes retouching of photographs.
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handheld paint sprayer powered by compressed air
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airbrush (third-person singular simple present airbrushes, present participle airbrushing, simple past and past participle airbrushed)
- To paint using an airbrush.
- To touch up or enhance a photograph or person, often with intent to mislead.
- (by extension, figurative) To edit or alter something in order to make it appear better.
- 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287:
- They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.