Quit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To depart from; leave: "You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits” ( Horatio Nelson).
  • v. To leave the company of: had to quit the gathering in order to be home by midnight.
  • v. To give up; relinquish: quit a job.
  • v. To abandon or put aside; forsake: advised them to quit their dissipated ways.
  • v. To cease or discontinue: asked them to quit talking; quit smoking.
  • v. Computer Science To exit (an application).
  • v. To rid oneself of by paying: quit a debt.
  • v. To release from a burden or responsibility.
  • v. To conduct (oneself) in a specified way: Quit yourselves like adults.
  • verb-intransitive. To cease performing an action. See Synonyms at stop.
  • verb-intransitive. To give up, as in defeat; stop.
  • verb-intransitive. To leave a job.
  • adj. Absolved of a duty or an obligation; free.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • v. To repay (someone) for (something).
  • v. To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • v. To conduct oneself, acquit oneself, to behave (in a specified way).
  • v. To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • v. To leave (a place).
  • v. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • v. To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  • v. To close (an application).
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of quit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under banana, and guitguit.
  • adj. Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
  • v. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • v. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
  • v. To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • v. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake
  • verb-intransitive. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Discharged or released from a debt, penalty, or obligation; on even terms; absolved; free; clear.
  • 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.
  • n. Same as queet.
  • n. The popular name of numerous small birds of Jamaica, belonging to different genera and families.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. turn away from; give up
  • v. go away or leave
  • v. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
  • v. put an end to a state or an activity
  • v. give up or retire from a position
  • Verb Form
    quited    quitely    quites    quiting    quits    quitted    quitting   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    quitted    quitting    banana    guitguit   
    Hyponym
    leave off    sign off    pull the plug    call it quits    drop    retire    cheese    close off    break    shut off   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    free    clear    absolved    acquitted    requite    leave    relinquish    surrender    forsake    resign   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brit    Grit    Kit    Pitt    Pritt    Schlitt    Schmidt    Split    Whit    Witt