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TEASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teased mean? 

TEASED (adjective)
  The adjective TEASED has 1 sense:

1. feeling mild pleasurable excitementplay

  Familiarity information: TEASED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TEASED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling mild pleasurable excitement

Synonyms:

teased; titillated

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)


 Context examples 


Amy teased Jo, and Jo irritated Amy, and semioccasional explosions occurred, of which both were much ashamed afterward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was kept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith teased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“It will be her turn soon to be teased,” said Miss Lucas.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Yet after all my task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was soon my child-wife indeed; sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese House, ringing all the little bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent bad behaviour; while Jip lay blinking in the doorway with his head out, even too lazy to be teased.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers teased apart, for the first time, the early cascade of events that may eventually cause stenosis, a severe narrowing of the aortic valve that reduces blood flow to body tissues and weakens the heart.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A young woman, if she fall into bad hands, may be teased, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I have not been to the rooms this age, nor to the play, except going in last night with the Hodges, for a frolic, at half price: they teased me into it; and I was determined they should not say I shut myself up because Tilney was gone.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Amy bridled up at this insult, and determined to find out the secret, if she teased for an hour.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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