Tease vs Assuage - What's the difference?
tease | assuage |
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.
To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).
* Addison
* Burke
* Byron
* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
To pacify or soothe (someone).
(obsolete) To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
As verbs the difference between tease and assuage
is that tease is to separate the fibres of a fibrous material while assuage is to lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.).As a noun tease
is one who teases.tease
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Verb
(teas)Derived terms
* tease out * teaserSynonyms
* (cock tease) cockteaser, prickteaserAnagrams
*assuage
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(assuag)- Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage .
- to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
- the fount at which the panting mind assuages / her thirst of knowledge
- I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.