tase

verb

tased; tasing
often capitalized

transitive verb

: to shoot with a Taser gun

Examples of tase in a Sentence

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Over the next 112 seconds, the officers entered his apartment, saw that Trawick was holding a bread knife near his stove, then tased and fatally shot him during an altercation in which the officers failed to de-escalate the situation, as the ProPublica report found. Colleen Hamilton, Them, 19 Feb. 2025 Bodycam footage showed the 2024 bronze medalist getting tased by police, while another angle showed one officer throwing punches while others held Kerley down. Ryan Morik, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2025 Ten minutes after police arrived, Whitfield was tased and fell to the ground. Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024 Best Phil sight gag: suffering from the aftershocks of getting tased by Manny, crumpling an expensive baseball card from mint condition… to near mint condition… to fair condition… to garbage. Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tase

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from Taser

First Known Use

1991, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tase was in 1991

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“Tase.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tase. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

tase

verb
ˈtāz
: to attack with a stun gun
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