What is another word for Touse?

Pronunciation: [tˈa͡ʊs] (IPA)

The word "touse" refers to the act of pulling or twisting something roughly. It can also mean to shake or jostle someone or something vigorously. Some synonyms for "touse" include "tug," "yank," "wrench," "jerk," "heave," "haul," "drag," "shake," "agitate," and "bounce." Each of these words conveys a similar sense of forceful movement and can be used to describe actions like grabbing a stubborn object and pulling it free, or shaking a container to mix its contents. Whether used in a literal or figurative sense, "touse" and its synonyms evoke a sense of determined effort and physical exertion.

What are the hypernyms for Touse?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Touse

Thence home and at my office all the morning, and then by water to St. James's, but no meeting to-day being holy day, but met Mr. Creed in the Park, and after a walk or two, discoursing his business, took leave of him in Westminster Hall, whither we walked, and then came again to the Hall and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never went abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word got her to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house, where I did give her a Lobster and do so Touse her and feel her all over, making her believe how fair and good a skin she has, and indeed she has a very white thigh and leg, but monstrous fat.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Ever since she was a little lass running to school in Keswick, with a Touse of lint-white locks blowing out in the gusts that came swirling off Skiddaw, Winsome had always been conscious of a train of admirers.
"The Lilac Sunbonnet"
S.R. Crockett
He raced about with a terrible Touse, From all the puddles went swilling, He gnawed and he scratched all over the house, His pain there was no stilling; He made full many a jump of distress, And soon the poor beast got enough, I guess, As if he had love in his body.
"Faust"
Goethe

Related words: to use, to be used, used, to put into service, to make use of, to be [used]

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