Definition of quit Quit
/kwɪˈt/ - [kwit] - quit
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| quit - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" | ||
| discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off | ||
| uphold, bear on, carry on, preserve, continue stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals | ||
| knock off, drop give birth; used for animals; "The cow dropped her calf this morning" | ||
| leave off stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here" | ||
| sign off cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations | ||
| retire, withdraw cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" | ||
| pull the plug prevent from happening or continuing; "The government pulled the plug on spending" | ||
| close off, shut off block off the passage through; "We shut off the valve" | ||
| cheese wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn" | ||
| call it a day, call it quits stop doing what one is doing; "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| quit - go away or leave | ||
| depart, take leave | ||
| stay stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" | ||
| go forth, go away, leave leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind" | ||
| walk out of leave, usually as an expression of disapproval | ||
| congee perform a ceremonious bow | ||
| beat a retreat depart hastily | ||
| plump out depart suddenly; "He plumped out of the house" | ||
| break camp, decamp leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" | ||
| quit - give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" | ||
| leave office, step down, resign | ||
| take office assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?" | ||
| pull up stakes, depart, leave go away or leave | ||
| vacate, renounce, resign, give up leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight" | ||
| retire cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" | ||
| top out to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" | ||
| fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" | ||
| quit - turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" | ||
| foreswear, renounce, relinquish | ||
| abandon, give up stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations" | ||
| disclaim make a disclaimer about; "He disclaimed any responsibility" | ||
| quit - give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" | ||
| drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, chuck up the sponge | ||
| participate, enter share in something | ||
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Wiktionary 
- quit (Noun)
Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. - quit (Verb)
To pay a debt, fine etc.. - quit (Verb)
To repay someone for something. - quit (Verb)
To repay, pay back a good deed, injury etc.. - quit (Verb)
To conduct oneself, acquit oneself, to behave in a specified way. - quit (Verb)
To abandon, renounce a thing. - quit (Verb)
To leave a place. - quit (Verb)
To resign from a job, office, position, etc.. - quit (Verb)
To stop, give up an activity usually + gerund or verbal noun. - quit (Verb)
To close an application.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- quit (n.)
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. - quit (v.)
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. - quit (imp. & p. p.)
of Quit - quit (a.)
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. - quit (a.)
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. - quit (a.)
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. - quit (a.)
To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. - quit (a.)
To carry through; to go through to the end. - quit (a.)
To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. - quit (v. i.)
To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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quit
To give up from a job or position. -
quit
To go away from a place; to leave. -
quit
To put an end to a state or an activity.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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quit
kwit, v.t. to pay, requite: to release from obligation, accusation, &c.: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance: (Spens.) to remove by force: (coll.) to give over, cease:—pr.p. quit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. quit′ted.—adj. (B.) set free: acquitted: released from obligation.—n. Quit′-claim, a deed of release.—v.t. to relinquish claim or title to.—n. Quit′-rent, a rent by which the tenants are discharged from all other services—in old records called white rent, as being paid in silver money.—adj. Quit′table, capable of being quitted.—ns. Quit′tal (Shak.), requital, repayment; Quit′tance, a quitting or discharge from a debt or obligation: acquittance: recompense.—v.t. (obs.) to repay.—Quit cost, to pay expenses; Quit one's self (B.), to behave; Quit scores, to balance accounts.—Be quits, to be even with one; Cry quittance, to get even; Double or quits, in gambling, said when a stake due is either to become double or be reduced to nothing, according to the issue of a certain chance; Notice to quit (law), notice to a tenant of real property that he must surrender possession. [O. Fr. quiter (Fr. quitter)—Low L. quietāre, to pay—L. quietāre, to make quiet—quietus, quiet.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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quit
To leave; to abandon. To quit your post or ranks, is to retire, without having received any previous order for that purpose, from a station intrusted to your care, or a position in which you may be. For punishment inflicted upon persons quitting their posts, see APPENDIX, ARTICLES OF WAR, 40.
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