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tose

UK/ˈtəʊz/US/ˈtoʊz/

tose verb: to pull apart or asunder; touse.

Verb

tose (third-person singular simple present toses, present participle tosing, simple past and past participle tosed)

  1. To pull apart or asunder; touse.

Forms of tose

third-person singular presenttoses
present participletosing
past participletosed
pasttosed
alternative formtoze
alternative formtoase
alternative formtoaze

Origin of tose

From Middle English tosen (“to card wool”), from Old English *tāsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (“to tug, separate, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, separate”).

Words formed from tose

  • toser
  • tosy

Questions about tose

What does tose mean?
Tose means to pull apart or asunder; touse.
What part of speech is tose?
Tose is a verb.
How do you pronounce tose?
Tose is pronounced /ˈtəʊz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of tose?
The past tense of tose is tosed.

Words near tose in the dictionary

  1. Toscanos
  2. Toscas
  3. Tosches
  4. Toscheses
  5. Tosco-
  6. tose
  7. TOSEC
  8. tosed
  9. Tosefos
  10. Tosefta
  11. Toseland

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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