# tose

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈtəʊz/

## Definitions
1. To pull apart or asunder; touse.

## Etymology
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”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tose