Usually means: Playfully provokes or irritates someone.
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  1. teases: Merriam-Webster
  2. teases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. teases: Vocabulary.com
  4. Teases, teases: Wordnik
  5. teases: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. teases: Wiktionary
  7. teases: Dictionary.com
  8. teases: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. teases: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. teases: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. teases: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. teases: Medical dictionary

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  1. teases: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tease)

verb:  (transitive) To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
verb:  (transitive) To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
verb:  (transitive) To backcomb.
verb:  (transitive) To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
verb:  (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
verb:  (transitive) To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
verb:  (transitive) To entice, tempt.
verb:  (transitive) To deliberately arouse someone sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
noun:  One who teases.
noun:  A single act of teasing.
noun:  One who deliberately arouses others (usually men) sexually with no intention of satisfying that arousal.
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