Synonym: annoy, badger, banter, bother, jest, joke, pester, vex. Similar words: at ease, ease, cease, teaspoon, please, release, disease, increase. Meaning: [tɪːz] n. 1. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) 2. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men 3. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances. v. 1. annoy persistently 2. harass with persistent criticism or carping 3. to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them 4. tear into pieces 5. raise the nap of (fabrics) 6. disentangle and raise the fibers of 7. separate the fibers of 8. mock or make fun of playfully 9. ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect.
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31. Johnny, don't be such a tease - leave your sister alone!
32. I tease him about his prejudice.
33. Erin's such a big tease.
34. What a tease life was, to be sure!
35. My brother's such a tease.
36. And when they stopped begging, he would tease them.
37. You're a radical feminist tease.
38. Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory, almost a tease.
39. They began to tease each other and the experimenters with self-conscious relish.
40. I knew Katie would tease me later about being a baby but I didn't care.
41. By definition, a tease lasts about ten seconds or less and the information it contains works like a headline.
42. He suppressed the urge to respond, to tease an answer to the question out of himself.
43. They always do that, the saucy wenches, they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back.
44. Some horses also like to tease us, to irritate us with trivial annoyances - and especially in front of an audience.
45. Brad was one of the kids who used to tease me at school.
46. It forces them to tease out information from inanimate objects.
47. So it can be hard to tease out the effect of the mouse alone.
48. We used to tease Andy about his height(Sentencedict), or rather his lack of height.
49. Sam's sisters used to tease him because he was overweight.
50. If I were you, I wouldn't tease Gerri about her hair.
51. Later, he hopes to be able to tease out information about the strength of heartbeats, too.
52. She moved downwards to tease his limp pego with her luscious melons, but to no avail.
53. So tease it, grow it, shave it, primp it, curl it, color it.
54. All there in the big glass anyway, let others tease it out.
55. Hold the mass of tubules with fine. straight forceps and thoroughly tease out their contents with fine, curved forceps.
56. He could not say that the garage was macho and Pricewell's was naff, because she would tease him again.
57. And with Earl Robert the saint condescended to tease him with a paradox!
58. But exhilaration is like any other high, a tease, a trick.
59. Don't over brush. Use a special wide-toothed comb to tease curls into place.
60. He would meddle with fishing nets, pull up anchors and tow boats, tease dogs and tow swimmers.