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tweeze

[tweez] ,
–verb (used with object), tweezed, tweez⋅ing.
to pluck, as with tweezers.

Origin:
1940–45; back formation from tweezers
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tweeze   (twēz)   
tr.v.   tweezed, tweez·ing, tweez·es
To handle or extract with tweezers.

[Back-formation from tweezers.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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