tase
Americanverb (used with object)
Usage
What does tase mean? To tase is to attack with a Taser or other stun weapon, typically with the goal of incapacitation. Tase comes from Taser, but in common usage it is used to refer to the action of using any such device (commonly called a stun gun). It is also spelled as taze. Example: Police officers are often trained to tase suspects who pose a physical threat when resisting arrest.
Etymology
Origin of tase
1990–95; back formation from Taser ( def. ), a trademarked proprietary name
Example Sentences
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“We ain’t gonna tase him,” Davis said in the video.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023
“And here that’s what she’s trying to do. ‘I’ll tase you,’ which is another way of saying, ‘Please stop so I don’t have to hurt you. Please stop.’
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Wright initially obeyed orders but tried to get back into his car as he was being handcuffed, prompting Potter to threaten to tase him twice, body camera footage shows.
From Fox News ● Dec. 1, 2021
A third officer, a 26-year veteran named Kim Potter, enters the fray, yelling “I’ll tase you!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
"I ain' sayin' nuttin' agin er stomick, case she ain' never let de stuff git down dat fur—en de stomick hit ain' never tase it yit."
From The Battle Ground by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
Filmmaker and actor Damien Smith says he was tased by police in his own apartment in Hollywood after he called 911 to report a burglary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
McCraw responded “I don’t have any information on that,” when asked if any family members had been tased.
From Slate ● May 27, 2022
Had Fanone not taken his place, Gonell might have been the officer who was tased, who could have suffered a heart attack, or worse, for all he knew.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
Mudie told Fox News that the student who was tased received a medical examination before authorities transported him to a juvenile detention center.
From Fox News ● Nov. 20, 2021
Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales said in a brief statement that officers had been disciplined for acting “inappropriately” when they “decentralized, tased and arrested” Brown.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018
“If the officers can’t articulate that there was an immediate threat to their safety or others, then it’s a bad tasing — period,” Obayashi said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Following his death, Olivas’ family sued the two police officers for excessive force, arguing their tasing violated Olivas’ Fourth Amendment rights.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2022
Last month, Fairfax County prosecutors put police officer Tyler Timberlake, who is White, on trial for tasing a Black man, La Monta Gladney, in June 2020.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Instead, he said his work is focused on the police conduct in the tasing itself.
From MSNBC ● Dec. 17, 2015
Are you going in now?—cause, av' you don't, I'll go and tell her not to be tasing herself about you.
From The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Trollope, Anthony
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