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Definition of tease : 1. One who teases or plagues.
2. To comb or card, as wool or flax.
3. To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
4. To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
5. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.

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lambast, affront, crucify, bodge, tantalise, depend upon, turn on, rally, jaw, bumble, chew up, nark, flirtation, fluff, lambaste, plague, chew out, puzzle, loose, muster up, flirting, dun, botch up, dupe, call up, ruffle, take in, circumvent, hinge on, sit, card, minx, depend on, beset, gull, berate, mishandle, ball up, take to task, bobble, lecture, displease, puzzler, teasing, twit, botch, get at, hem in, tantalize, mobilise, taunt, nettle, relax, louse up, offend, undo, ride, tantalization, gravel, devil, mystifier, fumble, pain, summon, chide, razz, untie, trounce, mount, have words, prickteaser, tormenter, bollix, muff, bug, muck up, rebuke, slang, teaser, drive, screw up, put one over, coquette, ribbing, rag, loosen, frustrate, beleaguer, coquetry, feelings, mess up, scold, dress down, bollocks, tormentor, wound, mobilize, excite, beat up, ridicule, rile, drum up, besiege, surround, bollix up, worry, vexer, kid, tease apart, comb-out, flub, reprimand, muster, bungle, provoke, remonstrate, reproof, vamp, toying, tap, vamper, put on, come up, put one across, wiretap, foul up, call on the carpet, rebound, devolve on, call down, befool, insult, fool, bollocks up, cod, blow, bawl out, intercept, annoyer, spoil, study at bother, flirt, hinge upon, get to, dalliance

aggravate (part of speech: verb)

badger, bait, nag, disturb, discompose, envenom, antagonize, exasperate, grate, perturb, upset, harass, chafe, peeve, harry, enrage, torment, bedevil, inflame, needle, pester, rankle, trouble, infuriate, aggravate, exacerbate, arouse

irritate (part of speech: verb)

fret, acerbate, irritate, hassle, irk, pique, annoy, bother, vex

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