quit

Verb

Synonyms: discontinue stop cease give up lay off leave office step down resign depart take leave foreswear renounce

WordNet 3.0

Verb (5)

put an end to a state or an activity“Quit teasing your little brother”Synonyms: discontinue stop cease give up lay off
give up or retire from a position“The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month”“The chairman resigned over the financial scandal”Synonyms: leave office step down resign
go away or leaveSynonyms: depart take leave
turn away from; give up“I am foreswearing women forever”Synonyms: foreswear renounce relinquish
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat“In the second round, the challenger gave up”Synonyms: drop out give up fall by the wayside drop by the wayside throw in throw in the towel chuck up the sponge

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Guitguit \Guit"guit`\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zool.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family C[oe]rebid[ae], allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit. [1913 Webster] gulae

Quit \Quit\, v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. [1913 Webster]

Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a., Quite, Acquit, Requite.]

1.To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.] [1913 Webster]

To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?— Wake.[1913 Webster]

2.To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. [1913 Webster]

There may no gold them quyte.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.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. [1913 Webster]

The blissful martyr quyte you your meed.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.— Fairfax.[1913 Webster]

4.To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. [1913 Webster]

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.— 1 Sam. iv. 9.[1913 Webster]

Samson hath quit himself Like Samson.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

5.To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.— Daniel.[1913 Webster]

6.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. [1913 Webster]

Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse.

To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. [1913 Webster]

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?— South.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite.

Usage: Quit, Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. [1913 Webster]

Quit \Quit\ (kw[i^]t), n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. [1913 Webster]

Quit \Quit\ (kw[i^]t), a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quiet.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

The owner of the ox shall be quit. --Ex. xxi. 28. [1913 Webster]

Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. "To cry quits with the commons in their complaints." --Fuller. [1913 Webster]