Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - tantalize
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Tantalize
tantalize
(tantalizes, tantalizing, tantalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'tantalise' If someone or something tantalizes you, they make you feel hopeful and excited about getting what you want, usually before disappointing you by not letting you have what they appeared to offer. ...the dreams of democracy that have so tantalized them. VERB: V n • tantalizing A tantalising aroma of roast beef fills the air. ADJ • tantalizingly She went away disappointed after getting tantalisingly close to breaking the record... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v, ADV with cl
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verb (-lized; -lizing) Etymology: Tantalus Date: 1597 transitive verb to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach intransitive verb to cause one to be ~d • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (also -ise) 1 torment or tease by the sight or promise of what is unobtainable. 2 raise and then dash the hopes of; torment with disappointment. Derivatives tantalization n. tantalizer n. tantalizingly adv. Etymology: Gk Tantalos mythical king of Phrygia condemned to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink it and under branches that drew back when he tried to pick the fruit ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. подвергать танталовым мукам; мучить, дразнить 2. мучиться, страдать 3. придавать искусственную форму ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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also -ise BrE v T usually passive to show or promise something that someone really wants, but then not allow them to have it ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1597, from L. Tantalus, from Gk. Tantalos, king of Phrygia, son of Zeus, punished in the afterlife (for an offense variously given) by being made to stand in a river up to his chin, under branches laden with fruit, all of which withdrew from his reach whenever he tried to eat or drink. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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