Tantalize vs Molest - What's the difference?
tantalize | molest | Related terms |
to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach
to bait (someone) by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
To annoy intentionally
To disturb or tamper with.
* Hooker
To sexually abuse, especially a minor
Tantalize is a related term of molest.
As verbs the difference between tantalize and molest
is that tantalize is to tease (someone) by offering something desirable but keeping it out of reach while molest is to annoy intentionally.tantalize
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(tantaliz)Quotations
* 1880 — *: They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion. * 1884 — , section 22 *: All pleasures palled upon me; all sights tantalized and tempted me to outspoken treason, because I could not but compare what I saw in Two Dimensions with what it really was if seen in Three, and could hardly refrain from making my comparisons aloud. * 1895 — , Ch. XV *: He had been possessed of much fear of his friend, for he saw how easily questionings could make holes in his feelings. Lately, he had assured himself that the altered comrade would not tantalize him with a persistent curiosity, but he felt certain that during the first period of leisure his friend would ask him to relate his adventures of the previous day. * *: “It was—simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.” * 1936 — , Ch. IX *: As we threaded our dim way through the labyrinth with the aid of map and compass ... we were repeatedly tantalized by the sculptured walls along our route. ... If we had had more films, we would certainly have paused briefly to photograph certain bas-reliefs, but time-consuming hand-copying was clearly out of the question.molest
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(Child sexual abuse)Verb
(en verb)- They have molested the church with needless opposition.
- The woman who molested the child she was babysitting has been arrested.