quit

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/kwɪt/

verb 5adj 1noun 1

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(verb.)

VERB + QUIT

try to

My brother has been trying to quit his job for months but keeps changing his mind.

decide to | threaten to | be forced to, have to

PREP

She decided to quit as a nurse after working in the hospital for ten years.

over

Many workers decided to quit over the new scheduling policy that management introduced last month.

PHRASES

give/issue notice to quit

The tenant received an official notice to quit at the end of last month.

Definitions

adj

Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

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 Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.

verb

To leave (a place).

The British quit India in the 1940s.

Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”

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

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

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

God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;

To abandon, renounce (a thing).

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

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

noun

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — go away or leave

depart

verb — turn away from

verb — give up or retire from a position

resign

verb — put an end to a state or an activity

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

quit scores

To settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?

quit while one is ahead

To stop taking risks before one starts losing.

Getting up on hot, rainy nights, trudging outside, and sitting on a steaming wet toilet seat, being tickled by the cockroaches that congregated just below the lid. Ten days at Gomb

quiet quit

To cease overachieving at one's workplace to focus on one's personal life; to do only what is reasonably or contractually required.

Near-synonym: work to rule

Example Bank

Wiktionary

The British quit India in the 1940s.

Wiktionary

Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”

Wiktionary

He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.

Wiktionary

The odds are against me, so I think I'll quit now.

Tatoeba · #20529

Any doctor will tell you to quit smoking.

Tatoeba · #28069

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