'Quit' definitions:
Definition of 'quit'
(from WordNet)
verb
Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold]
verb
Give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave office, quit, step down, resign] [ant: take office]
verb
verb
Turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish]
verb
Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" [syn: drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge] [ant: enter, participate]
Definition of 'Quit'
From: GCIDE
- Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] [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.] [1913 Webster]
- To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? --Wake. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. [1913 Webster]
- There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. [1913 Webster]
- Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --1 Sam. iv. 9. [1913 Webster]
- Samson hath quit himself Like Samson. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse.
- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. [1913 Webster]
- Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite.
- Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quit'
From: GCIDE
- Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] [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.] [1913 Webster]
- To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? --Wake. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. [1913 Webster]
- There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. [1913 Webster]
- Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --1 Sam. iv. 9. [1913 Webster]
- Samson hath quit himself Like Samson. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse.
- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. [1913 Webster]
- Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite.
- Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quit'
From: GCIDE
- Quit \Quit\ (kw[i^]t), n. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quit'
From: GCIDE
- Quit \Quit\ (kw[i^]t), a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See Quit, v., Quiet.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The owner of the ox shall be quit. --Ex. xxi. 28. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quit'
From: GCIDE
- Quit \Quit\, v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'quit'
From: GCIDE
- Guitguit \Guit"guit`\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zool.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family C[oe]rebid[ae], allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit. [1913 Webster] gulae
Synonyms of 'quit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abdicate,
- abjure,
- abort,
- abscond,
- acquit,
- act,
- atone,
- back out,
- be pensioned,
- be superannuated,
- bear,
- beat a retreat,
- beat it,
- beg off,
- belay,
- blow,
- bow out,
- cancel,
- carry,
- cease,
- chuck,
- clear,
- clear of,
- clear off,
- come off,
- compensate,
- comport,
- conduct,
- cry off,
- cut it out,
- cut out,
- decamp,
- demean,
- demit,
- depart,
- depart from,
- deport,
- desert,
- desist,
- desist from,
- disappear,
- discard,
- discharge,
- discharged,
- discontinue,
- disuse,
- drop,
- drop it,
- drop out,
- end,
- evacuate,
- exempt from,
- exit,
- flee,
- forsake,
- free,
- free of,
- get away,
- get away from,
- get off,
- get satisfaction,
- give notice,
- give over,
- give up,
- go,
- go back on,
- go on,
- halt,
- have done with,
- hold,
- indemnify,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- kick back,
- knock it off,
- knock off,
- lay off,
- leave,
- leave behind,
- leave flat,
- leave off,
- let go,
- liquidate,
- make amends,
- make good,
- make reparation,
- make requital,
- make restitution,
- make retribution,
- make up for,
- make up to,
- maroon,
- nol-pros,
- not pursue with,
- pay,
- pay back,
- pay in kind,
- pay off,
- pay up,
- pension off,
- pull out,
- put behind one,
- quit cold,
- quit of,
- recompense,
- recoup,
- redress,
- refrain,
- refund,
- reimburse,
- relinquish,
- remove,
- renege,
- renounce,
- renounce the throne,
- repay,
- requite,
- resign,
- retire,
- retire from office,
- retreat,
- reward,
- rid,
- rid of,
- satisfy,
- say goodbye to,
- scrub,
- secede,
- settle,
- shed of,
- shut of,
- skip,
- square,
- stand aside,
- stand down,
- stay,
- step aside,
- stop,
- superannuate,
- surcease,
- surrender,
- take leave of,
- take off,
- terminate,
- throw over,
- vacate,
- vanish,
- waive,
- withdraw,
- withdraw from