quit
adj.
liberated, released, exempt from
v.
stop, cease; leave (a place or person); evacuate an apartment; relinquish, give up; leave a job; release
Quit
Quit is a word that shares several meanings with the word
exit, including the
Exit command in computing. However, Quit can also mean:To quit, or
resign from, one's job or in general any activity being performedTo quit, or cease, an
addictionTo quit, or drop, a
habit or
hobbyThe activist group
QUIT!In general to
stop whatever one is doing, as in the exclamation, "quit it!"An abbreviation of
grassquit, a small bird of the tropical
Americas.
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quit
Verb
1. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
(synonym) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off
(hyponym) drop, knock off
2. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
(synonym) leave office, step down, resign
(hypernym) leave, depart, pull up stakes
(hyponym) vacate, resign, renounce, give up
3. go away or leave
(synonym) depart, take leave
(hypernym) leave, go forth, go away
(hyponym) peel of
4. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
(synonym) foreswear, renounce, relinquish
(hypernym) abandon, give up
(hyponym) disclaim
5. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
(synonym) drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, chuck up the sponge
(derivation) quitter
quitte
adv.
quits
adj.
quits, even, on equal terms
Quit
(v.)
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
(v. i.)
To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
(imp. & p. p.)
of Quit
(a.)
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
(a.)
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
(a.)
To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
(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.
(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.
(a.)
To carry through; to go through to the end.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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