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Definition of 'tease'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) tease
to irritate or provoke with petty taunts, playful mockery, pretended offers, persistent requests, or other annoyances, often in sport.

2.  tease
to comb or card (wool or the like); shred.

3.  tease
to ruffle (the hair) by holding at the ends and combing toward the scalp so as to give body to a hairdo.

4. (v.i.) tease
to tease a person or animal.

5. (n.) tease
a person who teases.

6.  tease
the act of teasing or the state of being teased.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME tesen (v.), OE tæmacr;san to pull, tear, comb, c. MD, MLG tēzen, OHG zeisan to pluck)

Definition of 'tease'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer
someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

2. (noun) coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser
a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

3. (verb) tease, teasing, ribbing, tantalization
the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
"he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent"

4. (verb) tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer
annoy persistently
"The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

5. (verb) tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride
harass with persistent criticism or carping
"The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

6. (verb) tease
to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
"The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"

7. (verb) tease
tear into pieces
"tease tissue for microscopic examinations"

8. (verb) tease
raise the nap of (fabrics)

9. (verb) tease, tease apart, loosen
disentangle and raise the fibers of
"tease wool"

10. (verb) tease, card
separate the fibers of
"tease wool"

11. (verb) tease
mock or make fun of playfully
"the flirting man teased the young woman"

12. (verb) tease, fluff
ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

Definition of 'tease'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) tease
to say or do sth annoying or slightly mean, as a joke
"This present is for me, right?" he teased.; My older brothers teased me constantly.

Definition of 'tease'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tease
one who teases or plagues

2. (verb) tease
to comb or card, as wool or flax

3. (verb) tease
to stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel

4. (verb) tease
to tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments

5. (verb) tease
to vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague

Translation of 'tease'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to annoy or irritate on purpose He's teasing the cat.
Afrikaans: terg, tart	Arabic: يُضايِق، يُنَكِّد	Bulgarian: дразня
Brazilian: implicar com	Czech: dráždit	German: necken
Danish: drille	Greek: πειράζω, ενοχλώ	Spanish: molestar, irritar; provoc
Estonian: õrritama	Farsi: اذیت کردن	Finnish: kiusata
French: agacer	Hebrew: לְהַקנִיט	Hindi: छेड़ना
Croatian: dražiti, gnjaviti	Hungarian: ingerel	Indonesian: mengganggu
Icelandic: stríða	Italian: stuzzicare, tormentare	Japanese: いじめる
Korean: 괴롭히다	Lithuanian: erzinti	Latvian: kaitināt
Malay: mengusik-usik	Dutch: plagen	Norwegian: erte
Polish: drażnić	Portuguese: arreliar	Romanian: a sâcâi
Russian: дразнить	Slovak: dráždiť	Slovenian: nagajati
Serbian: zadirkivati	Swedish: reta	Thai: หยอกล้อ
Turkish: kızdırmak	Taiwanese: 逗弄	Ukrainian: дражнити
Urdu: ستانا، تنگ کرنا	Vietnamese: trêu, nô đùa	Chinese: 逗弄
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