quit

1. 1

   Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.not-comparableusually

   • With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Pr

1. 1

   To leave (a place).transitive

   • The British quit India in the 1940s.
2. 2

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

   • To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
3. 3

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

   • God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;
4. 4

   To abandon, renounce (a thing).transitive

5. 5

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

   • After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
6. 6

   To stop, give up (an activity).ambitransitive

   • John is planning to quit smoking.
7. 7

   To close (an application).transitive

8. 8

   To pay (a debt, fine etc.).archaictransitive

   • Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.
   • that judge that quits each soul his hire
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   To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).archaicreflexive

   • Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
   • Samſon hath quit himſelf Like Samſon,
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    To carry through; to go through to the end.archaictransitive

    • Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.

syn. call it quits · conclude · finish · quit

ant. begin · initiate · persevere · start

1. 1

   Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.