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Definition of tantalize in English: tantalize(British tantalise) verb ˈtantəlʌɪzˈtæn(t)lˌaɪz [with object]1Torment or tease (someone) with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable. such ambitious questions have long tantalized the world's best thinkers Example sentencesExamples - Atlantic City's longest lasting attraction, the annual Miss America pageant, has answered America's longing for royalty since 1921, long before the casinos tantalized visitors with the prospect of becoming rich overnight.
- The mystery of why men fight has always tantalized students of warfare.
- Their truthful ideal would be a hung parliament, where they could extract from Labour the promise that has tantalised them for generations: electoral reform for the House of Commons.
- All these years we've been celebrating the uniqueness of Pi, the way it tantalized us by going on, forever and ever.
- That's why I was suckered into entering one of those Readers' Digest prize draws - you know, the ones that tantalise you for months, getting you to fill in this and that, tear off this bit, post this bit back.
- The sun keeps almost shining but I think it is just tantalizing us and will not put in much of an appearance.
- On and off through the afternoon light snow showers came along to tantalize us, dusting the ground white.
- A good open problem thus has some intrigue, has some surprise, and should tantalize the reader; the solution should appear to be just over the horizon, rather than indistinctly fading away.
- Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York and one of the heroes of the disaster aftermath, who spent a week tantalising voters with the prospect that he might run again for mayor, declared last night he would not run.
- Scientists have long been tantalized by the question of whether life once existed on Mars.
- How proteins fold into their ideal conformation is a question that has tantalized scientists for decades.
- To tantalize readers, Popular Science raises difficult questions about the theory of evolution - the evolution of man, feathers on dinosaurs and the classification of animals.
- The mystery of a shipwreck which has tantalised naval historians on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a quarter of a century is finally about to be solved.
- The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
- That is yet another question that tantalises historians, heritage buffs and citizens who are getting together to celebrate Madras Day on August 22.
- The upcoming release slate is like a mirage, tantalizing us - just over the horizon, barely out of reach.
- The twin girls represent new story ideas that have been tantalizing me.
- 1.1 Excite the senses or desires of (someone)
Example sentencesExamples - When she moved, her hair swished with her movements in a way that tantalized any man in her radius, though she was oblivious to all of the attention she got.
- More tantalising, there was lamb's liver and onion or Italian-style meat balls.
- Visually, the film also tantalizes the senses, with nearly every scene offering a riot of color.
- The tang of the luscious dishes, some of them on display and others being cooked, continue to tantalize your senses as you walk along the tables set in a row.
- And now she sat on the floor in her sunny yellow room, where those agonizingly sweet childhood remembrances tickled and tantalized her senses and swept her away from reality.
- In other words, it's the sort of movie that's bound to frustrate some viewers and tantalize others.
- Flamenco is gypsy music, melded with Jewish and Arabic cadences - tantalising, vibrant and complex, occasionally haunting, dark and sorrowful, but always vivid and intense.
- The band has clearly finally learned the importance of teasing an audience to the limit, tantalising us with the possibility that they won't play the one we're all secretly longing for.
- Innovatively flavoured with tantalizing aromas and packed with exotic spices, the festival promises an enticing treat to all biryani buffs.
- But individual bar brands that stood out over the past year tantalized consumers with fresh or flowery new scents, looking to mimic at least part of the appeal of liquid soaps.
- Ahron marveled at the bakeries, and the butcheries, enjoying the smell of fresh bread and pastries, as well as the sight of the tantalizing meat cuts.
- The prospect is tantalising, but first it's time to get down to brass tacks.
- Rounded ripe gooseberries tease the nose and their flavours tantalise the taste buds.
- What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes this desire.
- Besides offering run-of-the mill pub grub such as fish and chips, the updated menus promised to tantalise taste buds with some more exotic-sounding fare such as black olive bruschetta and charred cod, burnt lemon and Chardonnay risotto.
- International festivals like New York City's Lincoln Center Festival tantalize dance lovers with promises of offerings that are extremely varied and unique.
- She didn't realize she would find the control he was exerting over her exciting and tantalizing.
- The butter taste was rich and tantalising, while the smoothness of the fresh cream and yoghurt mix was offset by a kick of almond and sultana.
- Men and women across the nation go the movies and are dazzled by million dollar productions that tantalize the senses and expand the imagination.
- A drop of oil on a pillowcase will tantalise the senses for a romantic interlude, or help to lull you off to sleep.
Synonyms tease, torment, torture, bait tempt, entice, lure, titillate, intrigue, allure, beguile flirt with, excite, fascinate, make someone's mouth water, lead on, keep hanging on
Derivatives noun ˌtantəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n Thus the essence of glamour which may be thought of as sex appeal by tantalisation was replaced by ‘in your face’ sexuality. Example sentencesExamples - The photography, buttressed by watchful blocking and acting, invites careful consideration of the calamity as opposed to tantalization.
- So much of the book is a great, sweeping, magical such magic in so many different forms American adventure, that we are betrayed by the characters when they make mistakes, when they chose to do those things that we know will hurt them, but more often will hurt us by taking away the sheer, unvarnished tantalisation of the narrative.
- He is sent to the Underworld and his eternal punishment is tantalization.
- The Austrian Ministry of Justice had reviewed the written judgement and has then decided, that "deliberate tantalisation of a prisoner" could not be verified in this case.
noun Marketed under various aliases, this tantalizer has been around for nearly a century. Example sentencesExamples - What little floristic tantaliser have you got for us?
- No celebration would be complete without this palate tantaliser.
- Create your own taste-bud tantaliser with a mix of several herbs store in an airtight glass jar and throw in some grains of rice to help keep it dry.
adverbˈtantəlʌɪzɪŋli In the years since '83, we have endured some lean years, and tantalizingly close calls with sports' great prizes. Example sentencesExamples - But if you are looking for a tantalizingly greasy cheeseburger, you are in luck.
- We did get a tantalizingly brief shot of dozens and dozens and dozens of trucks driving somewhere in the distance, but wherever they were going, the BBC reporter wouldn't be there.
Origin Late 16th century: from Tantalus + -ize. In Greek mythology Tantalus was a king of Lydia (modern-day Turkey) who killed his son Pelops, and served him in a stew to the gods. His punishment was to be forced to stand for eternity up to his chin in water which receded whenever he tried to drink it and under branches of fruit that drew back when he tried to reach them. Tantalize is based on his name. The same story is reflected in tantalus [L19], a stand in which decanters of whisky, brandy, and other spirits are locked out of reach but remain visible. In the early 19th century a newly discovered metal was named tantalum because its inability to absorb acid was similar to Tantalus' inability to absorb water. Tannoy [1920s] is a contraction of tantalum alloy which is used as a rectifier in this sound reproduction and amplification system. Tannoy was originally a proprietary name.
Definition of tantalize in US English: tantalize(British tantalise) verbˈtan(t)lˌīzˈtæn(t)lˌaɪz [with object]1Torment or tease (someone) with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable. such ambitious questions have long tantalized the world's best thinkers Example sentencesExamples - On and off through the afternoon light snow showers came along to tantalize us, dusting the ground white.
- Scientists have long been tantalized by the question of whether life once existed on Mars.
- A good open problem thus has some intrigue, has some surprise, and should tantalize the reader; the solution should appear to be just over the horizon, rather than indistinctly fading away.
- To tantalize readers, Popular Science raises difficult questions about the theory of evolution - the evolution of man, feathers on dinosaurs and the classification of animals.
- How proteins fold into their ideal conformation is a question that has tantalized scientists for decades.
- That's why I was suckered into entering one of those Readers' Digest prize draws - you know, the ones that tantalise you for months, getting you to fill in this and that, tear off this bit, post this bit back.
- Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York and one of the heroes of the disaster aftermath, who spent a week tantalising voters with the prospect that he might run again for mayor, declared last night he would not run.
- That is yet another question that tantalises historians, heritage buffs and citizens who are getting together to celebrate Madras Day on August 22.
- The mystery of a shipwreck which has tantalised naval historians on both sides of the Atlantic for more than a quarter of a century is finally about to be solved.
- The upcoming release slate is like a mirage, tantalizing us - just over the horizon, barely out of reach.
- The sun keeps almost shining but I think it is just tantalizing us and will not put in much of an appearance.
- All these years we've been celebrating the uniqueness of Pi, the way it tantalized us by going on, forever and ever.
- Their truthful ideal would be a hung parliament, where they could extract from Labour the promise that has tantalised them for generations: electoral reform for the House of Commons.
- Atlantic City's longest lasting attraction, the annual Miss America pageant, has answered America's longing for royalty since 1921, long before the casinos tantalized visitors with the prospect of becoming rich overnight.
- The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
- The mystery of why men fight has always tantalized students of warfare.
- The twin girls represent new story ideas that have been tantalizing me.
- 1.1 Excite the senses or desires of (someone)
Example sentencesExamples - And now she sat on the floor in her sunny yellow room, where those agonizingly sweet childhood remembrances tickled and tantalized her senses and swept her away from reality.
- The band has clearly finally learned the importance of teasing an audience to the limit, tantalising us with the possibility that they won't play the one we're all secretly longing for.
- A drop of oil on a pillowcase will tantalise the senses for a romantic interlude, or help to lull you off to sleep.
- Besides offering run-of-the mill pub grub such as fish and chips, the updated menus promised to tantalise taste buds with some more exotic-sounding fare such as black olive bruschetta and charred cod, burnt lemon and Chardonnay risotto.
- The tang of the luscious dishes, some of them on display and others being cooked, continue to tantalize your senses as you walk along the tables set in a row.
- Men and women across the nation go the movies and are dazzled by million dollar productions that tantalize the senses and expand the imagination.
- But individual bar brands that stood out over the past year tantalized consumers with fresh or flowery new scents, looking to mimic at least part of the appeal of liquid soaps.
- What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes this desire.
- Visually, the film also tantalizes the senses, with nearly every scene offering a riot of color.
- International festivals like New York City's Lincoln Center Festival tantalize dance lovers with promises of offerings that are extremely varied and unique.
- More tantalising, there was lamb's liver and onion or Italian-style meat balls.
- The butter taste was rich and tantalising, while the smoothness of the fresh cream and yoghurt mix was offset by a kick of almond and sultana.
- Rounded ripe gooseberries tease the nose and their flavours tantalise the taste buds.
- Ahron marveled at the bakeries, and the butcheries, enjoying the smell of fresh bread and pastries, as well as the sight of the tantalizing meat cuts.
- She didn't realize she would find the control he was exerting over her exciting and tantalizing.
- Innovatively flavoured with tantalizing aromas and packed with exotic spices, the festival promises an enticing treat to all biryani buffs.
- In other words, it's the sort of movie that's bound to frustrate some viewers and tantalize others.
- Flamenco is gypsy music, melded with Jewish and Arabic cadences - tantalising, vibrant and complex, occasionally haunting, dark and sorrowful, but always vivid and intense.
- When she moved, her hair swished with her movements in a way that tantalized any man in her radius, though she was oblivious to all of the attention she got.
- The prospect is tantalising, but first it's time to get down to brass tacks.
Synonyms tease, torment, torture, bait
Origin Late 16th century: from Tantalus + -ize. |