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
Using mounted needles the reproductive tissue and digestive gland were teased apart to ascertain the presence/absence of periwinkle brood or trematode presence.
In teased retina preparations for microspectrophotometry, cone rows of various lengths were occasionally found settled flat on their sides.
Women of such repute are generally considered less desirable wives, and indeed, she is teased for not having found a husband yet.
The variations in the way self-interest is expressed has, perhaps, been insufficiently teased out in the empirical research.
He had a wicked sense of humour with which he teased the pompous world of architects and the writings in this book are a delight.
The uteri of 10 worms were teased to obtain eggs.
Dissected ovaries were teased apart with sterile tweezers in a large drop of saline under a low-power microscope.
They exist at a scale above the individual neuron, but well below that which can be teased apart with any imaging technology currently available.
