Synonyms for tease
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1. tease

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. tease

   Synonyms:
   vex, harass, annoy, disturb, irritate, plague, torment, tantalize, provoke, worry, badger

   Antonyms:
   soothe, gratify, please, delight, fascinate, enrapture

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1. tease, teaser, annoyer, vexernoun

   someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

   Synonyms:
   ribbing, vexer, mystifier, teasing, prickteaser, flirt, tormentor, puzzle, coquette, annoyer, minx, vamp, puzzler, vamper, teaser, tantalization, tormenter

2. coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteasernoun

   a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

   Synonyms:
   ribbing, vexer, prickteaser, flirt, teasing, coquette, flirtation, annoyer, minx, coquetry, vamp, vamper, teaser, tantalization, flirting, toying, dalliance

3. tease, teasing, ribbing, tantalizationverb

   the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

   "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent"

   Synonyms:
   teaser, minx, vamper, teasing, vamp, comb-out, tantalization, prickteaser, flirt, vexer, coquette, ribbing, annoyer

4. tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguerverb

   annoy persistently

   "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, surround, fluff, loosen, tap, wiretap, circumvent, bug, twit, tease apart, intercept, cod, tantalize, tantalise, besiege, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, hem in, pester, rally

5. tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, rideverb

   harass with persistent criticism or carping

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   sit, depend on, get at, reproof, mobilise, chide, bait, rile, dun, cod, razz, crucify, bedevil, reprimand, lambaste, mobilize, devil, drive, badger, get to, tantalise, frustrate, annoy, chew out, beat up, gull, trounce, taunt, fool, berate, chew up, rebound, lecture, drum up, nark, rag, depend upon, card, torment, ride, tease apart, dress down, irritate, tantalize, rally, befool, turn on, come up, remonstrate, hinge on, mount, pester, call up, take in, jaw, rebuke, nettle, fluff, vex, beleaguer, lambast, dupe, put on, bother, gravel, take to task, muster up, devolve on, summon, bawl out, slang, muster, call on the carpet, twit, put one across, loosen, have words, put one over, chafe, scold, call down, hinge upon, bug

6. teaseverb

   to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them

   "The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

7. teaseverb

   tear into pieces

   "tease tissue for microscopic examinations"

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

8. teaseverb

   raise the nap of (fabrics)

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

9. tease, tease apart, loosenverb

   disentangle and raise the fibers of

   "tease wool"

   Synonyms:
   bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, undo, loose, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, relax, untie, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

10. tease, cardverb

    separate the fibers of

    "tease wool"

    Synonyms:
    bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

11. teaseverb

    mock or make fun of playfully

    "the flirting man teased the young woman"

    Synonyms:
    bait, badger, taunt, fluff, loosen, bug, twit, tease apart, cod, tantalize, tantalise, ride, rag, card, razz, beleaguer, pester, rally

12. tease, fluffverb

    ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

    Synonyms:
    botch, badger, bungle, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, tantalise, blow, screw up, rally, loosen, bug, fumble, flub, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, ride, bait, card, razz, spoil, muff, tantalize, tease apart, cod, louse up, mess up, taunt, beleaguer, foul up, rag, fluff, bobble, pester, bollix up, bollix, twit, bodge, bollocks up

Matched Categories

1. • Change Surface
   • Make Fun
   • Manipulate
   • Separate
   • Shred
   • Unwelcome Person

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1. teaseverb

   Synonyms:
   worry, vex, plague, annoy, torment, molest, irritate, harass, tantalize, badger, chafe, hector, harry, pester, bother, trouble

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1. teaseverb

   Synonyms:
   torment, plague, tantalize, hector, taunt, harass, badger

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1. List of paraphrases for "tease":

   cupcake, hassle, languish

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1. tease

   Synonyms:
   Cock tease, see there
   

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1. Brooke Cucinella:

   We all tease him about his multiple appearances on TV and his celebrity status, but I think this is sort of a return to the core of what he's done for most of his career.

2. Matija Cuk:

   But that fact allows us to use computer simulations to tease out the history of Saturn’s inner moons, doing so, we find that they were most likely born during the most recent 2 percent of the planet’s history. Related : Saturn's largest moon Titan is bursting with color Researchers had long thought Saturn’s rings were as old as the planet itself. But that thinking changed in 2012, when French astronomers found that tidal effects – the gravitational interaction of the inner moons with fluids deep in Saturn’s interior – are causing them to spiral to larger orbital radii comparatively quickly. The implication, given their present positions, is that these moons, and presumably the rings, are not so old. That still did n’t answer exactly when they were born. Cuk and his team turned to results from NASA’s Cassini mission, which has observed ice geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Assuming that the energy powering these geysers comes directly from tidal interactions and that Enceladus ’ level of geothermal activity is more or less constant, then the tides within Saturn are quite strong. According to the team’s analysis, these would move the satellite by the small amount indicated by the simulations in only about 100 million years. Related : Cassini probe takes' cosmic bulls-eye' of Saturn moons Enceladus, Tethys This would date the formation of the major moons of Saturn, with the exception of more distant Titan and Iapetus, to the relatively recent Cretaceous Period, the era of the dinosaurs.

3. Andrew Freeman:

   Are they under a lot of stress? Are they drinking huge amounts of caffeine and then not sleeping? Maybe they’re not exercising very much, and we know that exercise promotes good quality sleep, it’s hard to tease out all the factors that might contribute.

4. AiR:

   I was living in pleasure... Till I stumbled upon some peace. And then my Master questioned... And a little did he tease: Are you just living to die? Or will you go on a quest to find out ‘Who am I?’

5. Roger Stone:

   > Washington( CNN) In one of the most anticipated congressional hearings in -- at least -- a generation, Michael Cohens spent better than six hours answering questions from members of Committee Democrats about the decade he spent working for Donald Trump.Much of the hearing was simply partisan jousting. Committee Democrats sought to tease out details of Trump's role in hush money payments made to two women alleging affairs with Ivanka Trump in the mid-2000s, and how long conversations about the Trump Tower Moscow project continued into the 2016 general election campaign. Republicans sought to remind people that Cohen was a liar, having already pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, and was likely to write a book about his experiences. ( I'm still not sure what that second point has to do with anything, but that's what they focused on !) Amid all of the yelling and partisanship, however, we did learn some things from Cohen. And he confirmed some other things. My list is below.1. Cohen said Ivanka Trump spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaksSaid Cohen in Ivanka Trump opening statement :.