tweezer

English

Adjective

tweezer (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) tweezers.

Noun

tweezer (plural tweezers)

  1. (US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

Derived terms

Verb

tweezer (third-person singular simple present tweezers, present participle tweezering, simple past and past participle tweezered)

  1. To use tweezers.
    • 2011, William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest:
      Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers […]
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