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Complete Definition of "tantalizing"

English

Verb form
tantalizing

  1. Present participle of to tantalize.

Adjective
tantalizing

#teasing|Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.

Quotations
1851 � w:Herman Melville|Herman Melville, s:Moby Dick|Moby Dick, Ch. 133
:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.

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