Quit

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cease or discontinue: synonym: stop.
  • intransitive verb. To resign from or relinquish.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To depart from; leave.
  • intransitive verb. To leave the company of.
  • intransitive verb. To exit (an application).
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To rid oneself of by paying.
  • intransitive verb. To release from a burden or responsibility.
  • intransitive verb. To conduct (oneself) in a specified way.
  • intransitive verb. To cease an action or cease working properly; stop.
  • intransitive verb. To abandon an activity out of frustration or despair; give up.
  • intransitive verb. To resign from or leave a job.
  • adjective. Absolved of a duty or an obligation; free.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as queet.
  • noun. A term introduced by Professor H. A. Newton to denote the point on the celestial sphere from which the motion of a body is at any moment directed: thus, the earth's quit is always a point on the ecliptic about 90° east of the sun. The quit is opposite to the goal. See goal, 7.
  • noun. The popular name of numerous small birds of Jamaica, belonging to different genera and families.
  • To satisfy, as a claim or debt; discharge, as an obligation or duty; make payment for or of; pay; repay; requite.
  • To set free; release; absolve; acquit; exonerate.
  • To free, as from something harmful or oppressing; relieve; clear; liberate: with of.
  • To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; conduct; acquit: used reflexively.
  • To complete; spend: said of time.
  • To depart from; go away from; leave.
  • To resign; give up; let go.
  • To forsake; abandon.
  • In archery, to discharge; shoot.
  • To extract; get rid of.
  • To remove by force.
  • To cease; stop; give over.
  • Synonyms and Desert, Abandon, etc. See forsake.
  • Discharged or released from a debt, penalty, or obligation; on even terms; absolved; free; clear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under banana, and guitguit.
  • transitive verb. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • transitive verb. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
  • transitive verb. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
  • transitive verb. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
  • transitive verb. To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • transitive verb. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake
  • transitive verb. to pay; to reimburse.
  • transitive verb. to make even; to clear mutually from demands.
  • adjective. Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
  • intransitive verb. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • verb. To repay (someone) for (something).
  • verb. To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • verb. To conduct oneself, acquit oneself, to behave (in a specified way).
  • verb. To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • verb. To leave (a place).
  • verb. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • Word Usage
    ""I do not know the meaning of the word quit," he said."
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    Brit  Grit  Kit  Pitt  Pritt  
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    abandon  abandon  abdicate  abjure  abort  
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    quited  quitely  quites  quiting  quits