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verbteaze (third-person singular simple present teazes, present participle teazing, simple past and past participle teazed)
present singular third person teazes · participle present teazing · participle past teazed · past teazed
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of tease.
With equal ardour, equal importunity, They teaze us to be damn'd, or to be sav'd.
1781, Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother, Act 1 Scene 11 more example
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Mary knew from Charles’s manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him.
1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume III, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 128
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