Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To pluck or grasp using tweezers.

    mit der Pinzette anfassen, mit der Pinzette entfernen

    pluck with tweezers

  2. (transitive)To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.

  3. (intransitive)To pluck out hairs using tweezers.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. She tweezed her eyebrows.

    ruОна выщипала брови. — sharptoothed

    deSie zupfte sich die Augenbrauen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
use tweezers:

Origin

Back-formation from tweezers.

Back-formation from tweezers.

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Forms

tweezes, tweezing, tweezed, tweezed
Base formtweeze · to tweeze
3rd person singulartweezes
Present participletweezing
Past simpletweezed
Past participletweezed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytweeze
he, she, ittweezes

Past simpleLesson

all personstweezed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tweezed
he, she, ithas tweezed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tweeze

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtweezer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tweedtweettweezertwelfth

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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