Definitions for tease

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Spelling: [teez]
IPA: /tiz/

Tease is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in tease (aeest).

Definitions for tease

noun

  1. a person who teases or annoys.
  2. the act of teasing or the state of being teased.

verb (used with object)

  1. to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
  2. to pull apart or separate the adhering fibers of (wool or the like), as in combing or carding; comb or card, as wool; shred.
  3. to ruffle (the hair) by holding it at the ends and combing toward the scalp so as to give body to a hairdo.
  4. to raise a nap on (cloth) with teasels; teasel.
  5. Also, teaser. Television Slang. a short scene or highlight shown at the beginning of a film or television show to attract the audience's attention.

verb (used without object)

  1. to provoke or disturb a person or animal by importunity or persistent petty annoyances.

Origin of tease

before 1000; Middle English tesen (v.), Old English tǣsan to pull, tear, comb; cognate with Middle Low German tesen, Old High German zeisan to pluck

Examples for tease

He proceeds to tease me, asking if our interview is “secretly a date?”

Harry appeared to tease his blond friend after the wardrobe malfunction was spotted.

You must not tease Mr. Maltravers so; Mr. Maltravers has too much to do to come to us.

Then, with infinite patience, you may be able to tease the flame.

The other boys did attempt it, however, simply to tease and annoy the fiery Corsican.

Journalism assumes an immutable truth, that a few more calls, a bit more reporting will tease it out of reluctant informants.

Hubertine shrugged her shoulders, and concluded the best thing for her to do was to tease her.

"Be careful, my dear," said Hubertine, continuing to tease her.

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.

Word Value for tease
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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