Don't tantalize me.
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Tantalize
//ˈtæntəlaɪz//
Synonyms for "tantalize" (83 found)
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23 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дразня verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- измъчвам verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Catalan
1 entries- tantalitzar verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Finnish
2 entries- härnätä verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- kiusoitella verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
French
1 entries- tantaliser verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Irish
3 entries- beophian verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- clip verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- griog verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Italian
4 entries- allettare verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- infliggere il supplizio di tantalo verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- lusingare verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- tentare verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Māori
2 entries- whakaminamina verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- whakanimanima verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Polish
2 entries- mamić verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- nęcić verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Russian
2 entries- манить verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- прима́нивать verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Spanish
1 entries- tantalizar verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вабити verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- манити verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
- спокушати verb (to tease someone by offering something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.
Source: wiktionary
All pleasures palled upon me; all sights tantalized and tempted me to outspoken treason, because I could not but compare what I saw in Two Dimensions with what it really was if seen in Three, and could hardly refrain from making my comparisons aloud.
Source: wiktionary
He had been possessed of much fear of his friend, for he saw how easily questionings could make holes in his feelings. Lately, he had assured himself that the altered comrade would not tantalize him with a persistent curiosity, but he felt certain that during the first period of leisure his friend would ask him to relate his adventures of the previous day.
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