meaning of tease
1. To comb or card, as wool or flax.
2. To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
3. To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
5. One who teases or plagues.
6. 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
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