tease out

verb

teased out; teasing out; teases out

transitive verb

1
: to obtain by or as if by disentangling or freeing with a pointed instrument
2

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That both of its leading men have suffered some great heartache is obvious from the first minutes of the premiere, directed by Jeremiah Zagar and set to Dan Deacon’s weepy score — even if the precise shape and scope of their losses will take some time to tease out. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 The work involved sophisticated processes, highly precise equipment focused on teasing out the DNA from those samples, and then analyzing that DNA at a rapid pace and immense scale. Nelson P. Repenning, Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025 The first clue, a mash-up of city politics and rom-com trivia to tease out the name Hugh Grant, led participants to the historic Tammany Hall Building on the edge of the square. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025 The two met over a long lunch as del Toro teased out details. Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tease out

Word History

First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tease out was in 1828

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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.

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