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re-tease

re-tease verb: to tease again.

Verb

re-tease (third-person singular simple present re-teases, present participle re-teasing, simple past and past participle re-teased)

  1. (transitive) To tease again.
    • The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter, page 158

Forms of re-tease

third-person singular presentre-teases
present participlere-teasing
past participlere-teased
pastre-teased
alternative formretease

Origin of re-tease

From re- + tease.

Questions about re-tease

What does re-tease mean?
Re-tease means to tease again.
What part of speech is re-tease?
Re-tease is a verb.
What is the past tense of re-tease?
The past tense of re-tease is re-teased.

Words near re-tease in the dictionary

  1. re-sworn
  2. re-take
  3. re-taken
  4. re-takes
  5. re-taking
  6. re-tease
  7. re-teased
  8. re-teases
  9. re-teasing
  10. re-tip
  11. re-tipped

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