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    tease
    /tiːz/

    verb

    • 1. make fun of or attempt to provoke (a person or animal) in a playful way: "I used to tease her about being so house-proud"
    • 2. gently pull or comb (tangled wool, hair, etc.) into separate strands: "she was teasing out the curls into her usual hairstyle"

    noun

    • 1. a person who makes fun of someone playfully or unkindly: informal "some think of him as a tease who likes to keep others guessing"
    • 2. an act of teasing someone: "she couldn't resist a gentle tease"

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  2. to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person: be teased about I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school. I was just teasing - I didn't mean to upset you. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to tease someone.

  3. Tease definition: to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling jests, or other annoyances, often in a playful way. See examples of TEASE used in a sentence.

  4. The meaning of TEASE is to make fun of : kid. How to use tease in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Tease.

  5. a. To make fun of (someone) playfully or taunt annoyingly: was teased by my classmates for being skinny; teased him about driving such a fast car. b. To say in a playful or mocking way: "But you're too young to get married," he teased. c. To provoke or irritate, as with physical movements: teased the cat by dangling a string in its face. d.

  6. tease. verb. /tiːz/ Verb Forms. Phrasal Verbs. [intransitive, transitive] to laugh at somebody and make jokes about them, either in a friendly way or in order to annoy them or make them embarrassed. Don't get upset—I was only teasing. tease somebody I used to get teased about my name.

  7. noun. a flirt who excites desire but does not intend to satisfy it. synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, vamp, vamper.

  8. To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in order to embarrass, annoy, or upset them.

  9. tease meaning, definition, what is tease: to laugh at someone and make jokes in or...: Learn more.

  10. tease. a person who likes to play tricks and jokes on other people, especially by telling them something that is not true or by not telling them something that they want to know.

  11. 1. To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in order to embarrass, annoy, or upset them. [...] 2. If you refer to someone as a tease, you mean that they like laughing at people or making jokes about them. [...] 3. If someone teases their hair, they separate the individual strands from each other, for example by combing it.