OUTSCORE

outpoint, outscore

(verb) score more points than one’s opponents

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

outscore (third-person singular simple present outscores, present participle outscoring, simple past and past participle outscored)

(transitive) To score more than.

Anagrams

• ecotours, score out, toe scour

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

27 December 2024

OBLIGATE

(adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life; “an obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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