Phrase Hound found 5 phrases and 16 compound words that contain tease. The most common are listed below. Open tease in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 5
- eve-teaseTo subject (a person) to Eve-teasing.
- tease outTo unravel; (figuratively, by extension) to determine; solve.
- re-teaseTo tease again.
- tease apartTo carefully separate two interlaced or interlocking items; to figuratively separate two opposing or overlapping concepts.
- tease and bluesAlternative form of Ts and blues: The combination of the drugs pentazocine (an opioid analgesic) and tripelennamine (an antihistamine), used for recreational purposes due to its euphoric effect in the 1970s and 1980s.
Compound words 16
- teasingpresent participle and gerund of tease
- reteaseAlternative form of re-tease: To tease again.
- unteaseTo disentangle; to tease apart.
- teaseeOne who is teased.
- teasefulRife with teasing.
- teasesomeCharacterised or marked by teasing
- teasementThe act of teasing.
- teasestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of tease
- teaseththird-person singular simple present indicative of tease: To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- proteaseAn enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.