tease

tease is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To comb or card, as wool or flax. "Teasing matted wool." Wordsworth.

[2] To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

[3] To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.

[4] To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

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