moused
- 1Simple past and past participle of mouse.
The farm cats moused through the granary and kept the rodents away.
By the time we arrived, the terrier had already moused out every burrow in the field.
Note
Every sense of the verb takes the same plain -ed ending. Cats moused in the barn, and a nervous guest moused around the hallway. The intransitive senses build only active tenses, as in had moused. The rigger's sense, closing a hook's mouth with a careful binding of marline or wire, is transitive, so it readily takes a passive: the hook was moused before the lift.
The hook was moused with marline before the crane took the load.
He moused around the kitchen looking for something to eat.
moused is a form of mouse
mouse, verb: To navigate on a computer by means of a mouse. Full entry
- Spelling
- mouse → moused: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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