Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mouse
Participle: moused
Gerund: mousing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mouse |
| you | mouse |
| he;she;it | mouses |
| we | mouse |
| you | mouse |
| they | mouse |
Perfect
| I | have moused |
| you | have moused |
| he;she;it | has moused |
| we | have moused |
| you | have moused |
| they | have moused |
Past
| I | moused |
| you | moused |
| he;she;it | moused |
| we | moused |
| you | moused |
| they | moused |
Pluperfect
| I | had moused |
| you | had moused |
| he;she;it | had moused |
| we | had moused |
| you | had moused |
| they | had moused |
Future
| I | will mouse |
| you | will mouse |
| he;she;it | will mouse |
| we | will mouse |
| you | will mouse |
| they | will mouse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have moused |
| you | will have moused |
| he;she;it | will have moused |
| we | will have moused |
| you | will have moused |
| they | will have moused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mouse |
| you | mouse |
| he;she;it | mouse |
| we | mouse |
| you | mouse |
| they | mouse |
Perfect
| I | have moused |
| you | have moused |
| he;she;it | have moused |
| we | have moused |
| you | have moused |
| they | have moused |
Imperfect
| I | moused |
| you | moused |
| he;she;it | moused |
| we | moused |
| you | moused |
| they | moused |
Pluperfect
| I | had moused |
| you | had moused |
| he;she;it | had moused |
| we | had moused |
| you | had moused |
| they | had moused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mouse |
| you | would mouse |
| he;she;it | would mouse |
| we | would mouse |
| you | would mouse |
| they | would mouse |
Perfect
| I | would have moused |
| you | would have moused |
| he;she;it | would have moused |
| we | would have moused |
| you | would have moused |
| they | would have moused |
Imperative
| you | mouse |
| we | Let's mouse |
| you | mouse |
Verbs conjugated like 'mouse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mouse'
bouse,
douse,
house,
louse,
moule,
mousle,
mousse,
muse,
ouse,
rouse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *múHs
3. Proto-Germanic *mūs
4. Proto-West Germanic *mūs
5. Old English mūs
6. Middle English mous
7. English mouse
8. Inherited from Middle English mous, from Old English mūs, from Proto-West Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Germanic *mūs, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs.
9. Cognates
10. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian mūs, Old Saxon mūs (German Low German Muus), Dutch muis, Old High German mūs (German Maus), Old Norse mús (Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mus, Faroese and Icelandic mús).
11. Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs), Latin mūs, Spanish mur, Armenian մուկ (muk), Old Church Slavonic мꙑшь (myšĭ) (Russian мышь (myšʹ)), Albanian mi, Persian موش (muš), Northern Kurdish mişk, Sanskrit मूष् (mūṣ).
12. The computing sense was coined by American engineer Bill English in 1965 and first used publicly in a publication titled "Computer-Aided Display Control", in reference to the similarity with the animal. See: Sanskrit '
मूष्'.
Sample Sentences
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Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
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I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter. [1988, MacUser, volume 4:]
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Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface. [2009, Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search, page 35:]
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[Death] mousing the flesh of men. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]