tease apart

1. 1.

   disentangle and raise the fibers of

   “tease wool”

   Synonymsteaseloosen

   Broaderdisentangle

Questions about tease apart

What does tease apart mean?

tease apart means "disentangle and raise the fibers of".

What is another word for tease apart?

Close synonyms include tease, loosen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tease apart a common word?

tease apart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.