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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

quit scores en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
    • 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 in their debt; and then it will not be hard to quit scores.
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
quits scores Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
quitting scores Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
quitted scores Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
quitted scores Tense=Past lexicographic
quit scores Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
quit scores Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

call it quits · settle scores