tease
挑逗,取笑,逗弄,逗趣
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teased, teas·ing.
- : to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling jests, or other annoyances, often in a playful way: If your little sister is teasing you about your boyfriend and following you around making kissy faces, it’s because she’s jealous and wants your attention.
- : to bully, harass, or torment: I was teased about my lisp when I was younger.New animals are kept isolated when they first arrive at the sanctuary to prevent the established pack from teasing or frightening them.
- : to purposely excite or sexually arouse without subsequent gratification: Don’t tease me with vacation ideas you know we can’t afford!She teased her fiancé with a sexy little dance even though she knew they couldn’t go all the way with a house full of guests.
- : to pull apart or separate the adhering fibers of, as in combing or carding; comb or card, as wool; shred.
- : to ruffle by holding it at the ends and combing toward the scalp so as to give body to a hairdo.
- : to raise a nap on with teasels; teasel.
- : to introduce without revealing details about it, conveying only that the product exists and will be available at a future date: Both developers teased next generation game consoles at the expo, but neither released specs.
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Examples
At the time, they were a tease, revealing little detail about their “incredibly exciting” method that matched experimental results in accuracy.
It is this giant tease, as though someone built Carnegie Hall but forgot to put doors on it.
That’s the tantalizing tease Malcolm Gladwell drops in his Revisionist History podcast episode on memory … and how it failed the NBC News anchor in the worst possible way.
Greenhouse tomatoes are ever-present — they’re a tease, often watery and dull.
Flood said Emrick will have a limited role with NBC and will provide the voice-over for the opening tease on Wednesday night’s telecast.
He proceeds to tease me, asking if our interview is “secretly a date?”
His youngest son, Orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease.
The sexual acts are mysterious, unpredictable, and passionate; they tease your senses.
We were about to go to sleep, but I decided to tease him about his weird habit of having the pillow a certain way on the bed.
Journalism assumes an immutable truth, that a few more calls, a bit more reporting will tease it out of reluctant informants.
Osmond Orgreave entered the room, quizzical, and at once began to tease Clayhanger about the infrequency of his visits.