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Definition of Tweeze
1. Verb. Pluck with tweezers. "Tweeze facial hair"
Definition of Tweeze
1. Verb. To use tweezers to pluck something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tweeze
1. to pluck with a tweezer [v TWEEZED, TWEEZING, TWEEZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweeze
Literary usage of Tweeze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Etymologically a " tweezer " is an instrument contained in a " tweeze " or a
small case containing several instruments, " tweeze " being a plural form of ..."
2. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"tweezers is vaguely associated in our minds with squeeze and with pinchers or
pincers. But the name means simply ' implements carried in a tweeze or case ..."
3. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1849)
"... d with diamonds, and tweeze As rich and costly as all these, To which a bunch
of onyxes, And many a golden seal there dangles, Mysterious cyphers, ..."
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