re-tease

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ tease.

Verb

re-tease (third-person singular simple present re-teases, present participle re-teasing, simple past and past participle 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.

Alternative forms

• retease

Anagrams

• sea-tree