airbrush

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English

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A single-action, external mix airbrush

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Etymology

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From air +‎ brush.

Noun

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airbrush (plural airbrushes)

  1. 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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Verb

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airbrush (third-person singular simple present airbrushes, present participle airbrushing, simple past and past participle airbrushed)

  1. To paint using an airbrush.
  2. To touch up or enhance a photograph or person, often with intent to mislead.
    This photo has definitely been airbrushed; no one has skin this smooth.
  3. (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.

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