tantalizes

Verb

tantalize (third-person singular simple present tantalizes, present participle tantalizing, simple past and past participle tantalized)

1. (transitive) To tease (someone) by offering or showing them something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.
   • They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.1880, John Boyle O'Reilly, “The Land of the Red Line”, in Moondyne

   Synonyms:

   taunt

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be teased by something desirable that is kept out of reach.
   • The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty[…]1640, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on 1 Cor. II. 20. 21.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-coloured Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. […]...