Usually means: Extract details through careful examination.
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  1. tease out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tease out: Merriam-Webster
  3. tease out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tease out: Wiktionary
  5. tease out: Dictionary.com
  6. tease out: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tease out: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tease out: Medical dictionary

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  1. tease out: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tease out)

verb:  To unravel; (figuratively, by extension) to determine; solve.
verb:  To separate as if by unraveling.
verb:  To work out, procure, or extract, usually by processes involving subterfuge, diligence, manipulation, or coaxing.

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