Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to touse
Participle: toused
Gerund: tousing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | touse |
| you | touse |
| he;she;it | touses |
| we | touse |
| you | touse |
| they | touse |
Perfect
| I | have toused |
| you | have toused |
| he;she;it | has toused |
| we | have toused |
| you | have toused |
| they | have toused |
Past
| I | toused |
| you | toused |
| he;she;it | toused |
| we | toused |
| you | toused |
| they | toused |
Pluperfect
| I | had toused |
| you | had toused |
| he;she;it | had toused |
| we | had toused |
| you | had toused |
| they | had toused |
Future
| I | will touse |
| you | will touse |
| he;she;it | will touse |
| we | will touse |
| you | will touse |
| they | will touse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have toused |
| you | will have toused |
| he;she;it | will have toused |
| we | will have toused |
| you | will have toused |
| they | will have toused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | touse |
| you | touse |
| he;she;it | touse |
| we | touse |
| you | touse |
| they | touse |
Perfect
| I | have toused |
| you | have toused |
| he;she;it | have toused |
| we | have toused |
| you | have toused |
| they | have toused |
Imperfect
| I | toused |
| you | toused |
| he;she;it | toused |
| we | toused |
| you | toused |
| they | toused |
Pluperfect
| I | had toused |
| you | had toused |
| he;she;it | had toused |
| we | had toused |
| you | had toused |
| they | had toused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would touse |
| you | would touse |
| he;she;it | would touse |
| we | would touse |
| you | would touse |
| they | would touse |
Perfect
| I | would have toused |
| you | would have toused |
| he;she;it | would have toused |
| we | would have toused |
| you | would have toused |
| they | would have toused |
Imperative
| you | touse |
| we | Let's touse |
| you | touse |
Verbs conjugated like 'touse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'touse'
bouse,
douse,
house,
louse,
mouse,
ouse,
rouse,
souse,
tose,
tousel,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.
2. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)). See: German, old spelling '
zausen'.
Verbs referencing "touse"
Esperanto
taŭzi.
Sample Sentences
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His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […] [c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39:]
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How did he like it when the live creatures
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Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
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And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
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Came in, each one, for his right of trover? [1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis]