how to pronounce tease

/tiːz/

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tease is pronounced in one syllable

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iː

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An example use of tease in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… little bit of a tease as you know we put …”

meaning of tease

Tease means to excite or irritate by laughing or taunting.

tease frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word tease occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tease can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tease can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;