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towse

towse 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

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Forms of towse

third-person singular presenttowses
present participletowsing
past participletowsed
pasttowsed

Questions about towse

What is towse the alternative form of?
Towse is the alternative form of touse.

Words near towse in the dictionary

  1. Towrys
  2. tows
  3. tows the line
  4. towsack
  5. towsacks
  6. towse
  7. towsed
  8. towser
  9. towsers
  10. towses
  11. towship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: towse (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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