re-tease

English

Etymology

re- +‎ tease

Verb

1. (transitive) To tease again.
   • 2000, Patricia Foster, All the Lost Girls: Confessions of a Southern Daughter (page 158)

     The house throbs with people, girls giggling in our bedroom as they drop cigarettes on the floor and re-tease their hair; muscle-bound football players cruise the halls, squat awkwardly on Mother's Queen Anne chairs as they pop open beers.

Alternative forms

• retease

Anagrams

• sea-tree