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Definition of Score out
1. Verb. Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing. "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"
Entails: Rub
Specialized synonyms: Sponge, Cut Out, Scratch Out
Generic synonyms: Cancel, Delete
Derivative terms: Eraser, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Score Out
Literary usage of Score out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by Francis E Warren, 2d session 55th Cong., Committee on Military Affairs, Army, United States, War Dept, Senate, Congress, Courts-martial (1907)
"... who is keeping tab right on the sheets—the scorer is from another company,
not from the company the shooter belongs to—-he says: " Mark that score out;" ..."
2. A Complete Practical Grammar of the German Language: With Exercises in by Traugott Heinrich Weisse (1872)
"score out Ahn's Rule because the monosyllables in L. 1. (p. ... score out in
Aim's Rule the words "are exceptions from the general rule and"; — Learn Nouns ..."