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SCORE OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does score out mean?
• SCORE OUT (verb)
The verb SCORE OUT has 1 sense:
1. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Familiarity information: SCORE OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off
Context example:
Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
Hypernyms (to "score out" is one way to...):
cancel; delete (remove or make invisible)
"Score out" entails doing...:
rub (move over something with pressure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "score out"):
sponge (erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard)
cut out; scratch out (strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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