Definition of "airbrush"

airbrush

noun
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.
verb
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.
3. (by extension, figurative) To edit or alter something in order to make it appear better.
  Quotations
  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.
  2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287