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to tweeze

to tweeze

3 6.0
Remove small hairs or splinters from the skin using tweezers
  • verb
  • /twiz/
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  • Yeah, I feel like, I feel like either I need to tweeze my brows because they're really angled down at the moment, or I need a Botox top up.
  • tweeze her eyebrows
  • tweeze your brows
  • tweeze the hairs

I could kind of tweeze the tail off my brow because I've been doing Botox for literally since forever.

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Examples

  • Before the wedding, she wanted to tweeze her eyebrows to ensure they looked perfect in the pictures.

  • She trimmed the wig a bit, said, "If you tweeze your brows it'll look even better," and started to put it in a plastic bag.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I mean, I work out, I tweeze my unibrow.

  • Like how to tweeze your eyebrows, for instance.

  • Listen, will you go upstairs and tweeze your eyebrows?

  • So now I'm just going to go in and tweeze all of these hairs that I don't want.

  • She finishes, emerges, wraps herself in a towel, opens the crowded, messy medicine cabinet, removes cosmetics and other items, and starts to tweeze her eyebrows.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • When preparing for her photoshoot, she decided to tweeze her eyebrows for a cleaner look.

  • He calmly picked up the tweezers and began to tweeze the stray hairs from his unibrow.

Synonyms

to pick
vsto tweeze
241 1.4

To remove unwanted parts like seeds or stems

focuses on tiny items removed precisely with a small metal tool
to pluck
vsto tweeze
77 3.5

To pull something out quickly with the fingers

uses a small metal tool for finer more precise removal
to pick off
vsto tweeze
9 4.3

Pull things away one at a time

describes the same removal but done with a small metal tool for precision
to tweezer
vsto tweeze
6.7

Pick up or remove something using a small tool with two thin arms

is the verb form for the same precise small tool action

How Precise

to tweeze
3 6.0
to extract
166 3.9
to pluck
77 3.5
to pull
1.0

Surface Forms

tweeze infinitive
tweezed past
tweezed past participle
tweezing present participle
tweezes third person singular

Etymology

Tweeze comes from the name of the small tool tweezers, which pinch and pull tiny things, so to tweeze is to 'pluck' or remove a hair or splinter with that little pinching tool.