to tweeze
- verb
- /twiz/
- 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.
- I could kind of tweeze the tail off my brow because I've been doing Botox for literally since forever.
- But you know, it's, you know, Mark tweezes his nipples like, you know he tweezes his nipples.
- We ramble and then Sean tweezes out something pithy like a moment ago you said you said debt is would you say a spiritual?
Examples
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Before the wedding, she wanted to tweeze her eyebrows to ensure they looked perfect in the pictures.
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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.
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Like how to tweeze your eyebrows, for instance.
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Listen, will you go upstairs and tweeze your eyebrows?
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So now I'm just going to go in and tweeze all of these hairs that I don't want.
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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.
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He calmly picked up the tweezers and began to tweeze the stray hairs from his unibrow.
Synonyms
To remove unwanted parts like seeds or stems
To pull something out quickly with the fingers
Pull things away one at a time
Pick up or remove something using a small tool with two thin arms
How Precise
Surface Forms
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.