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Audio Help [kwit] Pronunciation Key verb, quit or quit·ted, quit·ting, adjective

–verb (used with object)

1.	to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.

2.	to depart from; leave (a place or person): They quit the city for the seashore every summer.

3.	to give up or resign; let go; relinquish: He quit his claim to the throne. She quit her job.

4.	to release one's hold of (something grasped).

5.	to acquit or conduct (oneself).

6.	to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts.

7.	to clear (a debt); repay.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to cease from doing something; stop.

9.	to give up or resign one's job or position: He keeps threatening to quit.

10.	to depart or leave.

11.	to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat.

–adjective

12.	released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid (usually fol. by of): quit of all further responsibilities.

[Origin: 1175–1225; (adj.) ME quit(te) exempt, freed, acquitted of (< OF quite) < ML quittus, by-form of quītus (≫ ME quit(e); see quite), for L quiétus quiet¹; (v.) ME quit(t)en to pay, acquit oneself < OF quit(t)er < ML quittāre, quiétāre to release, discharge, LL quiétare to put to rest, quiet¹

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—Related forms

quit·ta·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 3. surrender, release. 12. acquitted, discharged.

—Antonyms 1, 8. start. 2. enter.

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quit Audio Help   (kwĭt) Pronunciation Key
v.   quit or quit·ted (kwĭt'ĭd), quit·ting, quits

v.   tr.

To depart from; leave: "You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits" (Horatio Nelson).
To leave the company of: had to quit the gathering in order to be home by midnight.
To give up; relinquish: quit a job.
To abandon or put aside; forsake: advised them to quit their dissipated ways.
To cease or discontinue: asked them to quit talking; quit smoking.
Computer Science To exit (an application).
1. To rid oneself of by paying: quit a debt.
2. To release from a burden or responsibility.
To conduct (oneself) in a specified way: Quit yourselves like adults.

v. intr.

To cease performing an action. See Synonyms at stop.
To give up, as in defeat; stop.
To leave a job.

adj. Absolved of a duty or an obligation; free.

[Middle English quiten, to release, from Old French quiter, from Medieval Latin quiētāre, quītāre, from Latin quiētus, at rest; see quiet.]

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