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Tease

verb

(past & past part. teased; pres. part. teasing)

1.

Annoy persistently. Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester.

2.

Harass with persistent criticism or carping. Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit. "Don't ride me so hard over my failure" , "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

3.

To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them. "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"

4.

Tear into pieces.

5.

Raise the nap of (fabrics).

6.

Disentangle and raise the fibers of. Synonyms: loosen, tease apart.

7.

Separate the fibers of. Synonym: card.

8.

Mock or make fun of playfully.

9.

Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect. Synonym: fluff.

noun

1.

Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity). Synonyms: annoyer, teaser, vexer.

2.

A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men. Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, vamp, vamper.

3.

The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances. Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, teasing. "His ribbing was gentle but persistent"

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"Tease" Quotes from Famous Books

... would think you had never worn a ribbon, and that you'd gone bareheaded all the days of your life. But you needn't talk: it's not so long ago but I can remember when you were as fond of dress as any girl in the city. I remember how you used to tease mamma for ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... The curious inconsistencies of the Creole nature also interested him, and he spent much of his spare time sketching and studying the people. Two friendships he made there were diverse and lasting, but he complains very much of feeling the lack of a woman friend—no one to tease and pick ...

— A Student in Arms - Second Series • Donald Hankey

... not anxious to have you caught—not now. But you are almost impertinent; indeed you are. I cannot say a word you do not misinterpret. Please do not attempt to tease ...

— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish

... mother is poor and we work for all we have! It isn't fair, because we can't help it, and we do the best we can. I never would say it to them in the world—never! In the first school I went to they used to tease the children who were timid, and bother them so much that they would forget their lessons and get punished when it was not their fault. But I looked after them," declared Anna, proudly. "I fought their battles for them, until the others left ...

— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... dream of impious obscene Satan, this Monstrous frenzy of life, the Indian being! And there are men in the dream! What men are they? I've heard, naught relishes their brains so much As to tie down a man and tease his flesh Infamously, until a hundred pains Hound the desiring life out of his body, Filling his nerves with such a fearful zest That the soul overstrained shatters beneath it. Must I preach God to these murderous hearts? I would my lot had fallen ...

— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various

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