tantalize

There was just enough to tantalize the poor brutes without filling their stomachs.

Details had vanished eons ago, but something still remained to tantalize imagination.

Trying to tantalize their victim, the Apaches made thrusts at Ensign Dave, and then leaped nimbly back.

Therefore we call it to tantalize a person to offer him a thing he longs for, and then to draw it away from him.

This singular punishment inflicted upon Tantalus gave rise to the expression “to tantalize.”