tease 的 4 个定义
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.
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teased, teas·ing.
- to provoke, disturb, torment, or bully a person or animal with persistent annoyances or harassment.
- a person who teases or annoys.
- a person who purposely excites or sexually arouses another, but then withholds gratification: The weatherman needs to stop being such a tease with these predicted snow days.All I did was set some sexual boundaries, but now he's spreading rumors that I'm a tease.
- the act of teasing or the state of being teased.
- Slang. teaser.
- tease out, to discover, understand, or disentangle: Only recently have scientists teased out a causal link between sleep loss and mood disorders, like anxiety.
tease 近义词
aggravate, provoke
tease 的近义词 48 个
- annoy
- badger
- bother
- harass
- mock
- needle
- nudge
- pester
- pick on
- ridicule
- tantalize
- taunt
- torment
- bait
- banter
- bedevil
- beleaguer
- chaff
- devil
- disturb
- dog
- gibe
- gnaw
- goad
- harry
- hector
- importune
- jive
- josh
- plague
- rag
- rally
- razz
- rib
- ride
- roast
- slam
- snap
- sound
- spoof
- vex
- worry
- be at
- give a hard time
- lead on
- put down
- send up
- swipe at
tease 的反义词 12 个
更多tease例句
- 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.
- The moment we arrive at the house the others begin to tease us and leave us together.
- The two engineers, being idle, had drunk liquor and were trying to tease the animals nearby.
- She told us children never to tease him, or worry him, but that we needn't be afraid of him, either.
- Dont tease me, she said, so quietly that an embarrassing silence fell between them.