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retease

retease is the alternative form of re-tease.

Meaning of re-tease

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 retease

third-person singular presentreteases
present participlereteasing
past participlereteased
pastreteased

Origin of retease

From re- + tease.

Questions about retease

What is retease the alternative form of?
Retease is the alternative form of re-tease.

Words near retease in the dictionary

  1. reteaming
  2. reteams
  3. retear
  4. retearing
  5. retears
  6. retease
  7. reteased
  8. reteases
  9. reteasing
  10. retecious
  11. retection

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