0 past simple and past participle of tease
1 to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person:
2 to hold your hair away from your head and brush it towards your head with a comb, in order to make it look thicker
He said he was going to leave us there, but I think he was only teasing.
They teased him mercilessly about his accent.
Residents also played practical jokes and teased one another.
As we correlate the drawings with the model, the scale continually leaps in our imaginations, and we feel teased by the artists.
Fragments were teased apart, but no identifiable female fragments were found.
Likewise, the region of the vitellaria was teased with a fine needle and vitelline cells were collected with a micropipette.
Consider, however, the possibility that certain animals might be conceptualized in terms of their suitability for being teased or baited.
