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tantalize

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈtæntəlaɪz/Part of speech verbSorted aaeilnttzStarts with TEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. harass with persistent criticism or carping

Word origin

From Tantalus (Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos)) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There, he had to stand for eternity in water that receded from him when he stooped to drink, beneath fruit trees whose branches were always out of reach. Derived as Tantalus + -ize.

Used in a sentence

  • They could not bear to be tantalized nor tortured by the splendid delusion.
  • Then he signed the warrior to continue to shoot arrows into the great beast while he attempted to close in upon him with the knife; so as one tantalized upon one side, the other sneaked cautiously in upon the other.
  • “It was—simply amazing,” she repeated abstractedly. “But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you.”

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