an artist's device for spraying paint by means of compressed air (用压缩空气在表面上喷洒颜料的)气笔,气刷
verb
[with obj.]paint with an airbrush 用气笔作画 a cab airbrushed with a mural of a sunset. 喷画有落日的出租车。 ■alter or conceal (a photograph or a detail in one) using an airbrush 用气笔修改,掩盖(照片或照片中某部分) a picture of a man with wings airbrushed on to his shoulders. 在他肩膀上用气笔画上长双翅的人像。 ■[usu. as adj. airbrushed](figurative)represent or describe (someone or something) as better or more beautiful than they in fact are (喻)粉饰 an airbrushed vision of the decade. 这十年的粉饰过的幻想。