0 past simple and past participle of tantalize
1 to make someone feel excited or attracted by an offer or a suggestion of something that is, in fact, unlikely to happen
We have been trifled with, - tantalized too long, - a natural result of our temporizings hesitations.
The challenge to build larger aircraft has tantalized designers and pilots since the dawn of aviation.
Yet she is tantalized by the chance to know.
The reader is tantalized by descriptions of heaven through verse 54, in which rich words like bliss and abundant are used.
In the story, he had been punished after death by being condemned to stand knee-deep in water with perfect fruit growing above his head, both of which eternally "tantalized" him.
