score – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to score off
Participle: scored off
Gerund: scoring off

Cognates

See the 5 cognates of score

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	score off
we	Let's score off
you	score off

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to acquire or gain

receive

to gain possession of something

accept, acquire, attain, cop, enlist, gain, garner, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, land, lay hands on, lay hold of, obtain, procure, receive, secure, snag, take, win

to remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material

blue-pencil, cancel, clear, cross out, eliminate, erase, exclude, expunge, obliterate, remove, rub out, scrap, scratch, scrub, squelch, strike, strike out, terminate, delete

count

tally, total, add, tabulate, calculate, enumerate, reckon, record

mark

line, notch, stroke

obtain

gain, procure, get, purchase, win

Antonyms

count

estimate, guess, hazard, conjecture

mark

ignore, omit, overlook, plainness

obtain

lose, forfeit, sacrifice, forgo

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
3. Proto-Germanic *skurō
4. Old Norse skorder.
5. Old English scoru
6. Middle English score
7. English score
8. From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
9. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate. See: Icelandic 'skora', Swedish 'skåra'.

Verbs referencing "score"

Danish score, Norwegian score, Norwegian, nynorsk score, Norwegian skåre, Dutch scheuren, Alemannic German schore, Irish scor, Dutch scoren, Cebuano eskor.

Sample Sentences