| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| tantalize |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tan·ta·lize |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t n t -l z |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: tan·ta·lized, tan·ta·liz·ing, tan·ta·liz·es
To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin Tantalus, Tantalus. See Tantalus. | | OTHER FORMS: | tanta·li·zation (-l -z shn) —NOUN
tanta·lizer —NOUN
tanta·lizing·ly —ADVERB
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