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quit scores

quit scores verb: to settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.

Verb

quit scores (third-person singular simple present quits scores, present participle quitting scores, simple past and past participle quitted scores or quit scores)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
    • Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
    • 28th Sept. 1648, Oliver Cromwell, letter
      And such, I hope, these will approve themselves to be. Let them therefore, if I be thought worthy of any favour, leave your Country with your good wishes and a blessing. I am confident they will be well bestowed. And I believe before it be long, you will be...
    Synonyms:
    settle scores, call it quits

Synonyms of quit scores

Forms of quit scores

third-person singular presentquits scores
present participlequitting scores
past participlequitted scores
pastquitted scores
past participlequit scores
pastquit scores

Questions about quit scores

What does quit scores mean?
Quit scores means to settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
What part of speech is quit scores?
Quit scores is a verb.
What is the past tense of quit scores?
The past tense of quit scores is quitted scores.

Words near quit scores in the dictionary

  1. quit claim deed
  2. quit claim deeds
  3. quit lit
  4. quit rent
  5. quit rents
  6. quit scores
  7. quit the oxygen habit
  8. quit when one is ahead
  9. quit while one is ahead
  10. quit while one was ahead
  11. quit-rent

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