To tweeze is to pull out single hairs with small pincers. Tweeze your brows, tweezed the splinter, tweeze one at a time.
Pulling in the direction of growth is what avoids breaking the hair below the skin, which is what causes ingrown hairs. The word was made backwards from tweezers, which came from a French word for a case of small instruments — the tool was named before the action.
1verbtweezeTo pull out single hairs with small pincers.
“She tweezed her eyebrows in front of the bathroom mirror.”
tweeze is a plucking.
A back-formation from tweezers, from French etui, a small case of instruments. The tool was named before the action.
a back-formation from tweezers.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA