tweeze

American  

[tweez] / twiz /

verb (used with object)

tweezed, tweezing

1. to pluck, as with tweezers.

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tweeze British  

/ twiːz /

verb

1. to take hold of or pluck (hair, small objects, etc) with or as if with tweezers

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Etymology

Origin of tweeze

First recorded in 1940–45; back formation from tweezers

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Example Sentences

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With a Moroccan argan oil base, this formula contains essential oils to relax you before going in for the tweeze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

You’re likely to have a few follicles still producing hair after the full course of treatments, which you’ll probably want to shave or tweeze for aesthetics’ sake.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021

It’s like that old board game Operation, where you have to meticulously tweeze bits ‘n’ pieces out of your unwitting patient.

From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2018

Yes, it played some role, but it’s difficult to tweeze apart voters’ hostility toward Clinton as a person and the degree to which that dislike was fueled by gender stereotypes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2017

“Arrange flowers in a vase, talk to boys, tweeze your eyebrows, shave your legs, apply lipstick ...” “What about vomit in a sink? They teach a charming way to do that?” she asked.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Back in the sampling tent, the scientists tweezed clumps of the manakin's breast feathers to be sent for analysis, before the bird is returned unharmed to the wild.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023

By the Nixon years eyebrows were tweezed again, with Twiggy bringing us back to our patriotic anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

But the larvae and pupae, carefully tweezed out of disinterred nests, are eaten immediately, gently simmered with ginger so they stay creamy, or fried to a crisp.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

Across the stage, a ballerina in pink tights tweezed blisters on her feet.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017

In I went, pushing the door back so the hinges cried out, devils, their thumbs crushed, their pointed noses tweezed.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

"John had this wonderful story of a lady he would see tweezing her eyebrows in front of the window and makeup mirror for what seemed to be hours. So we featured tweezing lady," said Bolan.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2021

“You can do just as much damage trimming as with tweezing — but with trimming, at least it grows back. With tweezing, the follicle can get damaged and then you’re screwed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019

So, if I started tweezing my eyebrows, no one really noticed.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 24, 2019

I launch a doomed campaign to banish peakiness: eyebrow tweezing, a jojoba oil face massage for diminishing eye puffiness and dark circles, and the old Amish trick of cheek-pinching for instant blush.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012

He spoke with his mouth full, licking his greasy fingers when he was done and then tweezing a handkerchief out of his back pocket to wipe himself.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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