英和和英

動詞

re-tease (三人称単数 現在形 re-teases, 現在分詞 re-teasing, 過去形および過去分詞形 re-teased)

1. (transitive) To tease again.
   • 2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter (page 158)

     The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.

別の表記

• retease

アナグラム

• sea-tree

動詞

retease (三人称単数 現在形 reteases, 現在分詞 reteasing, 過去形および過去分詞形 reteased)

1. Alternative form of re-tease
   • 1921, Commerce Reports - Volume 1, page 179:

     .Practically all of the woolen rags are sold at auction or direct to manufacturers in Yorkshire (England), who retease the wool and remake it into cloth (called " shoddy”).

   • 1949, Blanche Romick Pope, Upholstering Home Furniture, page 44:

     Distribute teased stuffing over the seat to the roll by holding the stuffing in your left hand while the right hand pulls, reteases, interweaves, and distributes the stuffing smoothly in place, the left hand helping in the process.

   • 1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground, →ISBN, page 1086:

     She had a small butt and long thighs, and she had her arms raised to retease her hair that spread up and out like tongues of flame.