英语词汇“tease”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

teasetease1 /tiz/ ●●○ S3 verb

ETYMOLOGYtease¹

Origin: Old English tæsan

VERB TABLE

tease

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	tease
	he, she, it	teases
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	teased
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have teased
	he, she, it	has teased
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had teased
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will tease
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have teased

Continuous Form
Present	I	am teasing
	he, she, it	is teasing
	you, we, they	are teasing
Past	I, he, she, it	was teasing
	you, we, they	were teasing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been teasing
	he, she, it	has been teasing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been teasing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be teasing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been teasing

COLLOCATIONS► only/just teasing

I’m sorry; I was just teasing.

1[intransitive, transitive] to make jokes and laugh at someone in order to have fun by embarrassing him or her, either in a friendly way or in a way that is not nice SYN rib, needle, josh: only/just teasing I’m sorry; I was just teasing. The other girls teased me a lot.tease somebody about something His friends were teasing him about his girlfriend.2[transitive] to deliberately annoy an animal: He’ll bite you if you don’t stop teasing him.3[intransitive, transitive] to deliberately make someone sexually excited without intending to have sex with him or her4[transitive] to comb your hair in the opposite direction to that in which it grows so that it looks thicker [Origin: Old English tæsan]tease something ↔ out phrasal verb1to succeed in finding information, the meaning of something, etc., even though this is difficult and may take a long time: Students are taught to tease out the meaning from difficult texts.2to gently loosen or straighten hairs or threads that are stuck together, so they become loose or straight again: She teased out the knots in her hair.3tease something out of somebody to persuade someone to tell you something that he or she does not want to tell you

verb | noun

teasetease2 noun [countable] informal 1someone who enjoys embarrassing or annoying people slightly by making jokes about them, often in a friendly way2someone who deliberately makes you sexually excited, but has no intention of having sex with you3something that is intended to make people interested in an event, movie, or program that is going to happen later or that is going to become available later: The tease aims to keep you watching, prevent you from changing the channel. → see also striptease