TEASES Synonyms

• a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

• a quick short straight punch

• the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

• poke or thrust abruptly

• strike or punch with quick and short blows

• stab or pierce

• showing your contempt by derision

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• the act of mocking or ridiculing

• constituting a copy or imitation of something

• treat with contempt

• imitate with mockery and derision

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

• the act of deriding or treating with contempt

• subject to laughter or ridicule

• showing your contempt by derision

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• treat with contemptuous disregard

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere

• a native or resident of Wisconsin

• annoy persistently

• persuade through constant efforts

• anything that serves as an enticement

• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• lure, entice, or entrap with bait

• attack with dogs or set dogs upon

• annoy persistently

• surround so as to force to give up

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes

• a card certifying the identity of the bearer

• a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)

• thin cardboard, usually rectangular

• a witty amusing person who makes jokes

• a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

• a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited

• (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)

• a list of dishes available at a restaurant

• (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

• a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

• separate the fibers of

• ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor

• the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

• lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

• major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

• collecting the charges upon delivery

• payable by the recipient on delivery

• fool or hoax

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

• playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest

• talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

• behave carelessly or indifferently

• any light downy material

• something of little value or significance

• a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• erect or fluff up

• ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

• make loose or looser

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• disentangle and raise the fibers of

• cause to become loose

• make less dense

• become loose or looser or less tight