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Try to make the lovely still lovelier? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

retouch

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'try' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'to make the lovely still lovelier?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'to' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for retouch that I've seen before include "Correct painting" , "Make slight improvements to (a photo/picture)" , "Improve a photo, with a pencil say" , "Paint over" , "Fine-tune" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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