tease

tease1 [ tiz ] verb *

1. ) intransitive or transitive to say something to someone in order to have fun by embarrassing or annoying them slightly in a friendly or unkind way:

I didn't mean it: I was only teasing.

tease someone about someone/something: John's always teasing me about my accent.

a ) transitive to annoy an animal in order to have fun

2. ) intransitive or transitive to make someone think that you are willing to have sex with them when you are not

3. ) transitive AMERICAN to make your hair look thicker by holding the end of it and moving a comb down through it toward your head

4. ) tease or tease out transitive to separate a group or knot of pieces of hair, string etc. into individual pieces:

The wool is teased into longer and straighter fibers.

,tease `out phrasal verb transitive

1. ) to succeed in discovering something difficult, complicated, or secret

2. ) same as TEASE1 4:

Tease out some of the roots before replanting.

tease

tease 2 [ tiz ] noun count

1. ) someone who says something to you in order to have fun by embarrassing or annoying you slightly in a friendly or unkind way:

He's just a tease. Ignore him.

a ) something that someone says or does when they are teasing you

2. ) someone who makes you think that they are willing to have sex with you when they are not

3. ) INFORMAL something that is designed to make people interested in an event that will happen or in a product that will become available later