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musemuse1 /myuz/ verb ETYMOLOGYmuse1Origin: 1300-1400 Old French muser, from muse mouth of an animal; ➔ MUZZLE1 VERB TABLEmuse |
Present | I, you, we, they | muse | | he, she, it | muses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | mused | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have mused | | he, she, it | has mused | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had mused | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will muse | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have mused |
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Present | I | am musing | | he, she, it | is musing | | you, we, they | are musing | Past | I, he, she, it | was musing | | you, we, they | were musing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been musing | | he, she, it | has been musing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been musing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be musing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been musing |
1[intransitive] to think carefully about something for a long time: muse on/about/over He mused on how different his life might have been.2[transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are thinking about it carefully: “I wonder why she was killed,” mused Poirot.—musingly adverb |