tweezered

Removed with pincers

Tweezered means gripped or removed with tweezers—small pincers used for plucking or handling tiny objects.

The word suggests precise, delicate extraction: She tweezered the splinter from his finger, He carefully tweezered each eyebrow hair into place.

The action implies painstaking attention to small details.

sensename

plucked

Pulled out forcefully

removed · pinched · pulled · delicate · careful · meticulous · grasped · lifted · splinter · eyebrow

medical

extracted

Removed from source

suture · surgical · specimen · biopsy · dissection · laboratory · forceps · delicate · tissue · sample

craft

precision

Accuracy of measurement

electronics · soldering · component · delicate · magnified · assembled · positioned · placed · intricate · hobbyist

beauty

plucked

Pulled out forcefully

arched · threading · waxing · precision · cosmetic · sculpted · defined · trimmed · overgrown · sparse

Opposites
precision and delicacy of manipulation

tweezeredyanked

Pulled abruptly

grabbed · ripped · wrenched · manhandled · ripped out

scale of grip

tweezeredfisted

Grasped in closed hand

palmed · clutched · gripped · grasped · clamped

Phrases
Family

tweezers, tweezer

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G