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Goronsky Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Tase or tasered / tasing or tasering

Which are the correct forms of 'tase' in these instances?

1 - The police were forced to tase/taser the disorderly man.
2 - The police tased/tasered the disorderly man.
3 - The police were observed tasing/tasering the disorderly man.

Many thanks.
  

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The word taser is actually one of the brand names that many people misuse to mean a whole group of similar things, instead of the particular brand or product that it actually means. org/wiki/Taser Other examples are Kleenex, Coke and Hoover.

  • The word taser is actually one of the brand names that many people misuse to mean a whole group of similar things, instead of the particular brand or product that it actually means.
  • org/wiki/Taser Other examples are Kleenex, Coke and Hoover.
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The word taser is actually one of the brand names that many people misuse to mean a whole group of similar things, instead of the particular brand or product that it actually means. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/taser and
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taser?s=ts

Taser:
n.
Word origen
1972, formed from the initials of Tom Swift's electric rifle, a fictitious weapon. A powerful word that threatens to escape the cage of its copyright, despite the strenuous efforts of the owners, who are within t

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