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tease

/tiːz/verb

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चिढ़ाना

Core word

verb
  1. 1

    [I, T]

    to laugh at somebody and make jokes about them, either in a friendly way or in order to annoy them

    चिढ़ाना

    • Stop teasing your sister.
    • My elder brother loves to tease me about my handwriting.

    Synonyms mock taunt rag make fun of

→Phrasal verbs 1

tease sth out

to spend time trying to find out information or the meaning of something, especially when this is complicated or difficult

(उलझी बात का) धीरे-धीरे अर्थ निकालना, सुलझाना

  • It took a while to tease out the central idea of the passage.
≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

mock taunt rag make fun of

“Collocations, idioms and sayings

Tease out (find information by careful thinking).

Phrasal verb 'tease out' (सावधानी से सोचकर जानकारी निकालना)।