Dictionary entry details
• TEASE (noun)
Meaning:
Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
vexer; tease; annoyer; teaser
Hypernyms ("tease" is a kind of...):
persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)
Meaning:
A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
vamper; vamp; prickteaser; minx; flirt; coquette; tease
Hypernyms ("tease" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Meaning:
The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
tantalization; teasing; ribbing; tease
Context examples:
he ignored their teases / his ribbing was gentle but persistent
Hypernyms ("tease" is a kind of...):
harassment; molestation (the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism)
• TEASE (verb)
Meaning:
Annoy persistently
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
badger; beleaguer; bug; pester; tease
Context example:
The children teased the boy because of his stammer
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
bedevil; crucify; dun; frustrate; rag; torment (treat cruelly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot tease Sue
Meaning:
Harass with persistent criticism or carping
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
twit; taunt; tantalize; tantalise; razz; bait; cod; tease; rag; ride; rally
Context examples:
The children teased the new teacher / Don't ride me so hard over my failure / His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
bemock; mock (treat with contempt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tease"):
barrack; flout; gibe; jeer; scoff (laugh at with contempt and derision)
banter; chaff; jolly; josh; kid (be silly or tease one another)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context examples:
The advertisement is intended to tease the customers / She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
control; keep in line; manipulate (control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage)
"Tease" entails doing...:
arouse; excite; sex; turn on; wind up (stimulate sexually)
disappoint; let down (fail to meet the hopes or expectations of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Tear into pieces
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
tease tissue for microscopic examinations
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
rip up; shred; tear up (tear into shreds)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Raise the nap of (fabrics)
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)
"Tease" entails doing...:
brush (rub with a brush, or as if with a brush)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Disentangle and raise the fibers of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
tease apart; loosen; tease
Context example:
tease wool
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
disentangle; straighten out; unsnarl (extricate from entanglement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Separate the fibers of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
card; tease
Context example:
tease wool
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
separate (divide into components or constituents)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Mock or make fun of playfully
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
the flirting man teased the young woman
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast (subject to laughter or ridicule)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
fluff; tease
Hypernyms (to "tease" is one way to...):
comb; comb out; disentangle (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They tease their hair
