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Tweak   /twik/   Listen
Tweak

verb
1.
Pinch or squeeze sharply.
2.
Pull or pull out sharply.  Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off.
3.
Adjust finely.  Synonym: fine-tune.






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"Tweak" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked a passer-by. But when the watchman gave no reply, the merry roysterer, who was now returning home from a noisy drinking bout, took it into his head to try what a tweak of the nose would do, on which the supposed sleeper lost his balance, the body lay motionless, stretched out on the pavement: the man was dead. When the patrol came up, all his comrades, who comprehended nothing of the whole affair, were seized with a dreadful fright, for dead he was, and he remained ...
— Andersen's Fairy Tales • Hans Christian Andersen



Words linked to "Tweak" :   force, draw away, pull off, pull, squeeze, tune up, twitch, tweeze, draw off, nip, draw, pluck, tweet, pick off, squeezing, twinge, tune



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