Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tweeze
Participle: tweezed
Gerund: tweezing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tweeze |
| you | tweeze |
| he;she;it | tweezes |
| we | tweeze |
| you | tweeze |
| they | tweeze |
Perfect
| I | have tweezed |
| you | have tweezed |
| he;she;it | has tweezed |
| we | have tweezed |
| you | have tweezed |
| they | have tweezed |
Past
| I | tweezed |
| you | tweezed |
| he;she;it | tweezed |
| we | tweezed |
| you | tweezed |
| they | tweezed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tweezed |
| you | had tweezed |
| he;she;it | had tweezed |
| we | had tweezed |
| you | had tweezed |
| they | had tweezed |
Future
| I | will tweeze |
| you | will tweeze |
| he;she;it | will tweeze |
| we | will tweeze |
| you | will tweeze |
| they | will tweeze |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tweezed |
| you | will have tweezed |
| he;she;it | will have tweezed |
| we | will have tweezed |
| you | will have tweezed |
| they | will have tweezed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tweeze |
| you | tweeze |
| he;she;it | tweeze |
| we | tweeze |
| you | tweeze |
| they | tweeze |
Perfect
| I | have tweezed |
| you | have tweezed |
| he;she;it | have tweezed |
| we | have tweezed |
| you | have tweezed |
| they | have tweezed |
Imperfect
| I | tweezed |
| you | tweezed |
| he;she;it | tweezed |
| we | tweezed |
| you | tweezed |
| they | tweezed |
Pluperfect
| I | had tweezed |
| you | had tweezed |
| he;she;it | had tweezed |
| we | had tweezed |
| you | had tweezed |
| they | had tweezed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tweeze |
| you | would tweeze |
| he;she;it | would tweeze |
| we | would tweeze |
| you | would tweeze |
| they | would tweeze |
Perfect
| I | would have tweezed |
| you | would have tweezed |
| he;she;it | would have tweezed |
| we | would have tweezed |
| you | would have tweezed |
| they | would have tweezed |
Imperative
| you | tweeze |
| we | Let's tweeze |
| you | tweeze |
Verbs conjugated like 'tweeze'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tweeze'
tweezer,
bleeze,
breeze,
feeze,
freeze,
heeze,
neeze,
pheeze,
teaze,
tweedle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from tweezers.
Sample Sentences
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Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks. [1929 September 2, “Philatelists”, in Time:]
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He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm. [1930, Virginia Woolf, “Beau Brummell”, in The Common Reader: Second Series, published 1932:]
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Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows. [1950, Anya Seton, chapter 1, in Foxfire, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 4:]
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He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […] [1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:]
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Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs. [2012 November 16, Adriana Ermter, “How to get the perfect eyebrows: Four reasons to enlist a professional”, in Chatelaine:]