Exasperate vs Tease - What's the difference?
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To frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry.
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(obsolete) Exasperated; embittered.
* Elizabeth Browning
To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
To back-comb.
To poke fun at.
To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
* (1800-1859)
*:Hesuffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations.
*1684 , , (Hudibras)
*:Not by the force of carnal reason, / But indefatigable teasing .
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
To entice, to tempt.
Exasperate is a related term of tease.
As verbs the difference between exasperate and tease
is that exasperate is to frustrate, vex, provoke, or annoy; to make angry while tease is to separate the fibres of a fibrous material.As an adjective exasperate
is (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.As a noun tease is
one who teases.exasperate
English
Verb
(exasperat)- this report
- Hath so exasperate the king that he
- Prepares for some attempt of war.
- The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
- Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time , 5 Jan:
- [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK), 4 June (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
- News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Shakespeare)
- Like swallows which the exasperate dying year / Sets spinning.