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Definition of Tantalizes
1. tantalize [v] - See also: tantalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantalizes
Literary usage of Tantalizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"... whatever awakens anger provokes; whatever heightens this anger extraordinarily
exasperates; whatever raises hopes in order to frustrate them tantalizes. ..."
2. English Synonymes: Explained in Alphabetical Order, with Copious Illus. and by George Crabb (1897)
"... whatever raises hopes in order to frustrate them tantalizes. An appearance of
un • concern for the offence and its consequences aggravates the guilt of ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1826)
"... whatever heightens this anger extraordinarily exonerates ; whatever raises
hopes in order to frustrate them tantalizes. Wicked people aggravate their ..."
4. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"... whatever raise* hopes in order to frustrate them tantalizes. ... the weather
by its frequent changos tantalizes those who depend upon it for amusement. ..."
5. English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1816)
"The weather by its frequent changes tantalizes those who depend upon it for
amusement. As If nature bad not sown evils enough in life, we are continually ..."
6. Popular and Complete English Dictionary: Exhibiting the Pronunciation by John Boag (1848)
"... pp Teased or tormentor by the disappointment of the hope of good. Tantalizes,
tan'ta.ll-ziir, n. One that tantalizes. ..."
7. Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Benedick' s talkatively pertinacious heresy ' in despite of beauty ' irritates
and tantalizes her the more by continually obtruding itself upon her from the ..."
8. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (1904)
""These lines are part of an unpublished poem by Coleridge, whose Muse so often
tantalizes with fragments which indicate her powers, while the manner in ..."
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