QUIT

depart, take leave, quit

(verb) go away or leave

foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish

(verb) turn away from; give up; “I am foreswearing women forever”

discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

(verb) put an end to a state or an activity; “Quit teasing your little brother”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

quit (third-person singular simple present quits, present participle quitting, simple past and past participle quitted or quit)

(transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

(transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).

(transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

(reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

(transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.

(transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

(transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

(transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).

(transitive) To leave (a place).

(transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).

(transitive, computing) To close (an application).

Adjective

quit (not comparable)

(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

Usage notes

• The past tense of quit is now quit for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow quitted as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by quit by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean “left”. e.g, She quitted her job.

Etymology 2

Noun

quit (plural quits)

Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America. [from 19th c.]

Source: Wiktionary

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Quit, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

Quit, a. Etym: [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quirt.]

Definition: Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. Chaucer. The owner of the ox shall be quit. Ex. xxi. 28.

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.

Quit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] Etym: [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.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it Wake.

2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. 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. Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax.

4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. I Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath guit himself Like Samson. Milton.

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

Syn.

– 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.

Quit, v. i.

Definition: To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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