re-tease en · VERB
Etymology
From re- + tease.
Meanings
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(transitive) To tease again.
The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.
2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter, page 158:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| retease | alternative | lexicographic | |
| re-teases | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| re-teased | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| re-teased | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| re-teasing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |