tweak
verb/twiːk/
/twiːk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tweak | /twiːk/ /twiːk/ |
| he / she / it tweaks | /twiːks/ /twiːks/ |
| past simple tweaked | /twiːkt/ /twiːkt/ |
| past participle tweaked | /twiːkt/ /twiːkt/ |
| -ing form tweaking | /ˈtwiːkɪŋ/ /ˈtwiːkɪŋ/ |
- tweak something to pull or twist something suddenly
- She tweaked his ear playfully.
- tweak something to make slight changes to a machine, system, etc. to improve it
- I think you'll have to tweak these figures a little before you show them to the boss.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: probably an alteration of dialect twick ‘pull sharply’; related to twitch.
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