Past tense of airbrush; to use an airbrush to spray paint or apply a liquid, or to retouch a photograph to make it look perfect and artificial.
From 'airbrush' (a 20th-century invention combining 'air' and 'brush'), used originally for art and photography, the past tense shows the action of using this tool.
Airbrushing became a superpower in magazine advertising—whole industries were built around making celebrities look impossibly perfect, but now social media has exposed how fake those images are!
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