Meaning & use
Tweeze
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To pluck or remove hairs or small objects using tweezers.
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She carefully tweezed a splinter out of her son's finger.
He tweezes his eyebrows once a week to keep them neat.
A note on using this word
'Tweeze' is a back-formation from the noun 'tweezers,' which itself derives from 'tweeze' meaning a small case of instruments.
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