different between retouch vs revamp

English

Etymology

From French retoucher

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Verb

retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)

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

Translations

Noun

retouch (plural retouches)

1. The act of retouching.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hectour, hectour, toucher

English

Etymology

From re- +? vamp (“to patch”, verb).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i??vamp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?væmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

revamp (third-person singular simple present revamps, present participle revamping, simple past and past participle revamped)

1. (transitive) To renovate, revise, improve or renew.

   Synonyms: patch, ameliorate, improve, modernize, renovate; see also Thesaurus:repair, Thesaurus:improve

   Antonym: deteriorate

Translations

Noun

revamp (plural revamps)

1. A renovation, revision or improvement.
   • 2012, Gerald Jonker, Jan Harmsen, Engineering for Sustainability, Elsevier (?ISBN), page 67:

     Also for new products, a revamp of an existing process to produce this new product is to be considered. Revamps are modifications of existing processes.

Further reading

• “revamp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• vamper