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tweeze
(tweeze)
Pronunciation:
/twiːz/
(also
tweezer
)
verb
[
with object
]
pluck, grasp, or pull with or as if with tweezers:
the brows were tweezed to an almost invisible line
Origin:
1930s
: back-formation from
tweezer
(see
tweezers
)
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