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touze

touze is the alternative form of touse.

Meaning of touse

Verb

touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)

  1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
  2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
    • 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

See all 3 meanings of touse

Forms of touze

third-person singular presenttouzes
present participletouzing
past participletouzed
pasttouzed

Questions about touze

What is touze the alternative form of?
Touze is the alternative form of touse.

Words near touze in the dictionary

  1. touton
  2. toutons
  3. touts
  4. Touws River
  5. Touwu
  6. touze
  7. touzed
  8. touzes
  9. touzing
  10. Touzjian
  11. Touzjians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touze (page history and authors); touse (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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