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quit
1[ kwit ]
verb (used with object)
- to stop, cease, or discontinue:
She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
Antonyms: start
- to depart from; leave (a place or person):
They quit the city for the seashore every summer.
Antonyms: enter
- to give up or resign; let go; relinquish: She quit her job.
He quit his claim to the throne.
She quit her job.
- to release one's hold of (something grasped).
- to acquit or conduct (oneself).
- to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts.
- to clear (a debt); repay.
verb (used without object)
- to cease from doing something; stop.
- to give up or resign one's job or position:
He keeps threatening to quit.
- to depart or leave.
- to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat.
adjective
- released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid (usually followed by of ):
quit of all further responsibilities.
quit
2[ kwit ]
noun
- any of various small tropical birds.
quit
/ kwɪt /
verb
- tr to depart from; leave
he quitted the place hastily
- to resign; give up (a job)
he quitted his job today
- intr (of a tenant) to give up occupancy of premises and leave them
they received notice to quit
- to desist or cease from (something or doing something); break off
quit laughing
- tr to pay off (a debt); discharge or settle
- archaic.tr to conduct or acquit (oneself); comport (oneself)
he quits himself with great dignity
adjective
- usually predicativefoll byof free (from); released (from)
he was quit of all responsibility for their safety
Other Words From
- quitta·ble adjective
- un·quitted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of quit1
Origin of quit2
Word History and Origins
Origin of quit1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with quit , also see call it quits .Example Sentences
She quits cold turkey — “It took four days,” she says — after meeting her husband Kevin Hunter.
Naturally, you want to share this workload with your husband, but requesting he quit something he has done for years was going to be met with understandable resistance.
A few people quit high school to do the show and then got their GEDs, and we were aware that getting this job was changing their life trajectory.
For the family, if Peter quit flying, it meant he’d be home more to help with the kids.
Despite the threats and harassment not one Parler employee has quit.
Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.
But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.
Army B-squad players who fail to make it onto the varsity team after a year or two usually quit football.
On Tuesday, two senior Kremlin officials, Vladimir Avdeyenko and Boris Rapoport, quit their jobs.
His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.
Hain't I kep' in doors uv a nite, an quit chawn tobacker and smokin' segars just to please her?
And knowing that bunch as well as I do, I don't think they'll lift the plunder and quit the country till they can go together.
The seller may safely give a quit-claim deed for he thereby sells only whatever interest he may have.
King Edward refused to believe the evidence of his senses, and obstinately refused to quit the field.
That you and Jim don't mention the sale to anybody, and keep on runnin' the place—for wages—until I'm ready for you to quit.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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