Usually means: Playfully provoke or annoy someone.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word tease:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tease: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tease: Merriam-Webster
  3. tease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tease: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tease: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tease, tease: Wordnik
  8. tease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tease: Wiktionary
  10. tease: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tease: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tease: Dictionary.com
  14. tease: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tease: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tease (band), Tease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tease: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tease: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tease: Rhymezone
  20. tease: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tease: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tease: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tease: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tease: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tease: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tease: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tease: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tease: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tease, tease, tease: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See teased as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
verb:  (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
verb:  (transitive) To backcomb.
verb:  (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
verb:  (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
verb:  (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
verb:  (transitive) To entice, tempt.
verb:  (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
noun:  One who teases.
noun:  A single act of teasing.
noun:  One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.

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