quit
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)quitted, quitting, quits
- put an end to a state or an activity“Quit teasing your little brother”Synonyms: discontinuestopceasegive uplay offbreakbreak offMore general end, terminateMore specific interrupt, close up, retire, drop out, separate, dismiss, drop, shut off, bog down, get off +11 more
- 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 officestep downresignMore general leave, departMore specific retire, vacate, fall, top out
- go away or leaveSynonyms: departtake leaveMore general leave, go forthMore specific decamp, walk out of, plump out, congee, beat a retreat
- turn away from; give up“I am foreswearing women forever”Synonyms: foreswearrenouncerelinquishMore general abandon, give upMore specific disclaim
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat“In the second round, the challenger gave up”Synonyms: drop outgive upfall by the waysidedrop by the waysidethrow inthrow in the towelchuck up the spongeMore general discontinue, stop
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Translations
Verb to give up, stop doing something
Verb to leave
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Zoology Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
Origin: OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, verb, Quiet.
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. Geoffrey Chaucer
The owner of the ox shall be quit.— Ex. xxi. 28.
☞ 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.” Thomas Fuller
Origin: 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, adjective, and cf. Quit, adjective, Quite, Acquit, Requite.
1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. rare
To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?— William Wake
2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
There may no gold them quyte.— Geoffrey Chaucer
God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.— John Milton
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.
The blissful martyr quyte you your meed.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act.— William Shakespeare
Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.— Edward Fairfax
4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; — used reflexively.
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.— 1 Sam. iv. 9.
Samson hath quit himself Like Samson.— John Milton
5. To carry through; to go through to the end. obsolete
Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.— Daniel.
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.
Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.— John Locke
To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. — To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands.
Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?— Robert South
Synonyms: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. — 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.
To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54