Synonyms of the word

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

annoyer

• n. One who annoys.

badger

• n. A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian…
• n. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
• n. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
• n. (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which…
• v. to pester, to annoy persistently.
• v. (Britain, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
• n. (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly…

bait

• n. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare,…
• n. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
• n. Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
• n. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
• n. A light or hasty luncheon.
• v. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
• v. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
• v. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
• v. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
• v. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops…

bedevil

• v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
• v. To perplex or bewilder.

beleaguer

• v. To besiege; to surround with troops.
• v. To vex, harass, or beset.

bemock

• v. (archaic) To ridicule or mock.
• v. (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
• v. (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

bug

• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
• n. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
• n. Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
• n. (chiefly computing) A problem that needs fixing.
• n. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it.
• n. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
• n. An electronic intercept device.
• n. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page,…
• n. (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program…
• n. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
• n. A semi-automated telegraph key.
• n. (obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
• n. (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
• n. (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
• n. (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
• v. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
• v. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

card

• n. A playing card.
• n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
• n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
• n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
• n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
• n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
• n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how…
• n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide…
• n. A greeting card.
• n. A business card.
• n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed…
• n. test card.
• n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
• n. (dated) A printed programme.
• n. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
• n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
• n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus…
• n. An indicator card.
• v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
• v. (dated) To play cards.
• n. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
• n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
• n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material…
• n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
• n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
• v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
• v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
• v. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
• n. Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird).

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

comb

• n. A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
• n. A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
• n. A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
• n. A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
• n. The top part of a gun’s stock.
• n. The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between…
• n. (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
• n. A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
• n. A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
• n. The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
• n. The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
• n. One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
• n. The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
• n. A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
• n. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread…
• n. (Algebraic Geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth…
• v. (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb.
• v. (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
• v. (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
• v. (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
• n. (abbreviation) Combination.
• n. Alternative form of combe.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

coquette

• n. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
• v. Alternative form of coquet.

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

disentangle

• v. (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
• v. (transitive) To unravel a mystery etc.
• v. (intransitive) To become free or untangled.

dun

• n. A brownish grey colour.
• adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
• n. (countable) A collector of debts.
• n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
• v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
• v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
• n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
• n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
• n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
• n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
• n. A mound or small hill.
• interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

flirt

• n. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
• n. One who flirts.
• n. An act of flirting.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
• v. (intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
• v. (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
• v. (transitive) To blurt out.
• v. (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in…
• v. (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
• adj. pert; wanton.

fluff

• n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
• n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
• n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
• n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
• n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
• n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
• v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
• v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
• v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
• v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
• v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
• v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

guy

• n. (Britain) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
• n. (dated) A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
• n. (colloquial) A man, fellow; also (especially in plural) in more gender-neutral sense, a person.
• n. (colloquial, of animals and sometimes objects) Thing, creature.
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) Thing, unit.
• n. (informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to guide, steady or secure something which is being hoisted…
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady something prone to shift its position or be carried away…
• v. To equip with a support cable.

harassment

• n. Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.
• n. Deliberate pestering or annoying.
• n. Excessive intimidation.

loosen

• v. To make loose.
• v. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
• v. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.

manipulate

• v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
• v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
• v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

minx

• n. A pert, flirtatious or impudent young woman.
• n. (obsolete) A female puppy; a pet dog.
• n. (obsolete) A mink.

mock

• n. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.
• n. Mockery, the act of mocking.
• n. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.
• v. To mimic, to simulate.
• v. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
• v. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
• adj. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

molestation

• n. The act of molesting.

pester

• v. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.

prickteaser

• n. (slang, vulgar, chiefly derogatory) A seductive woman, especially one who does not deliver what she promises.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

rally

• n. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.
• n. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a…
• n. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals…
• n. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight;…
• v. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• v. To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
• n. Good-humoured raillery.

razz

• n. (poker) A version of seven card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
• v. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
• v. (informal) (Newfoundland) To drive an automobile around.

rib

• n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
• n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
• n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
• n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
• n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
• n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
• n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
• n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
• n. A teasing joke.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
• n. A stalk of celery.
• n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
• v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
• v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
• v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
• v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

ribbing

• v. present participle of rib.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to rib.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
• n. (countable) An instance of teasing.

ride

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle…
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• v. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such…
• v. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• v. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
• v. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• v. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• v. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• v. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• v. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• n. An instance of riding.
• n. (informal) A vehicle.
• n. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• n. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• n. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• n. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
• n. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

ridicule

• v. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun…
• n. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.
• n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
• n. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
• adj. (obsolete) ridiculous.

roast

• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering,…
• v. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
• v. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
• v. (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
• n. A cut of meat suited to roasting.
• n. A meal consisting of roast foods.
• n. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
• n. (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised…
• adj. having been cooked by roasting.
• adj. (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

shred

• n. A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.
• n. In general, a fragment; a piece; a particle; a very small amount.
• v. To cut or tear into narrow and long pieces or strips.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To lop; to prune; to trim.
• v. (snowboarding) To ride aggressively.
• v. (bodybuilding) To drop fat and water weight before a competition.
• v. (music, slang) To play very fast (especially guitar solos in rock and metal genres).

tantalise

• v. Alternative spelling of tantalize.

tantalization

• n. The act of tantalizing.

tantalize

• v. (transitive) to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach.
• v. (transitive) to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

taunt

• v. to make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
• n. A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
• adj. (nautical) Very high or tall.

teaser

• n. One who teases or pokes fun.
• n. A person or thing that teases (textile treatment).
• n. A short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger.
• n. (electrical) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is…

teasing

• v. present participle of tease.
• n. The act of teasing; making fun of or making light of.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

twit

• v. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
• v. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
• n. A reproach, gibe or taunt.
• n. A foolish or annoying person.

unsnarl

• v. To remove or undo a snarl.

vamp

• n. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the…
• n. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance; a patch.
• n. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
• n. (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often…
• n. An activity or speech intended to fill time or stall.
• n. A volunteer fire fighter.
• v. (shoemaking) To attach a vamp.
• v. To walk.
• v. To patch, repair, or refurbish.
• v. (often as vamp up) To put together, improvise, or fabricate.
• v. (music) To perform a vamp; to perform a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, e.g. under dialogue…
• v. To stall or delay, as for an audience.
• n. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who uses sexual desire to exploit men.
• n. (informal) A vampire.
• v. (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.

vamper

• n. One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.

vexer

• n. One who vexes; one who annoys.

woman

• n. An adult female human.
• n. (collective) All females collectively; womankind.
• n. A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
• n. A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of…
• n. A female attendant or servant.
• v. To staff with female labor.
• v. (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.