Tweeze
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /twiz/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tweeze is a verb meaning (transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.
Meaning
(transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.
- (intransitive) To pluck out hairs using tweezers.
Example Sentences
He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]
Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.
Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.
Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.
Word Forms
- tweezes
- tweezing
- tweezed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tweag, tweague, twinge, pull, tweek, tweedle.
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