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tantalize

/ˈtæntəlaɪz/

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. fiil To tease (someone) by offering or showing them something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied.

    “They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.”

  2. fiil To be teased by something desirable that is kept out of reach.

    “The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty[…]”

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