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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024quit1 /kwɪt/USA pronunciation v., quit or quit•ted, quit•ting. - to stop, cease, or discontinue: [no object]Will that noise ever quit?[~ + verb-ing]He quit smoking.[~ + object]Quit it, will you?
- to give up or resign;
let go;
relinquish: [~ + object]She quit her job.[no object]decided to quit. - to depart from;
leave (a place or person):[~ + object]The army quit the area as fast as it could. - to stop trying, struggling, or the like:[no object]Don't quit now; you still have a chance to win.
Idioms[Informal.]- call it quits, [no object] to end an activity, relationship, etc.:decided to call it quits and get a divorce.
See -quit-.-quit-, root. - -quit- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "release;
discharge;
let go.'' This meaning is found in such words as: acquit, quit, quite, requite, unrequited.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024quit1 (kwit),USA pronunciation v., quit or quit•ted, quit•ting, adj. v.t. - to stop, cease, or discontinue:She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- to depart from;
leave (a place or person):They quit the city for the seashore every summer. - to give up or resign;
let go;
relinquish:He quit his claim to the throne. She quit her job. - to release one's hold of (something grasped).
- to acquit or conduct (oneself ).
- to free or rid (oneself ): to quit oneself of doubts.
- to clear (a debt);
repay.
v.i. - to cease from doing something;
stop. - to give up or resign one's job or position:He keeps threatening to quit.
- to depart or leave.
- to stop trying, struggling, or the like;
accept or acknowledge defeat.
adj. - released from obligation, penalty, etc.;
free, clear, or rid (usually fol. by of ):quit of all further responsibilities.
- Medieval Latin quittāre, quiētāre to release, discharge, Late Latin quiētare to put to rest, quiet1
- Old French quit(t)er
- Medieval Latin quittus, by-form of quītus ( Middle English quit(e); see quite), for Latin quiētus quiet1; (verb, verbal) Middle English quit(t)en to pay, acquit oneself
- Old French quite)
- (adjective, adjectival) Middle English quit(te) exempt, freed, acquitted of (1175–1225
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged surrender, release.
- 12.See corresponding entry in Unabridged acquitted, discharged.
- 1, 8.See corresponding entry in Unabridged start.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged enter.
quit2 (kwit),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of various small tropical birds.
- origin, originally Jamaican English, of uncertain origin, originally 1845–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: quit /kwɪt/ vb (quits, quitting) (quitted, chiefly US quit)- (transitive) to depart from; leave
- to resign; give up (a job)
- (intransitive) (of a tenant) to give up occupancy of premises and leave them
- to desist or cease from (something or doing something); break off
- (transitive) to pay off (a debt); discharge or settle
- (transitive) archaic to conduct or acquit (oneself); comport (oneself)
adj - (usually predicative) followed by of: free (from); released (from)
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French quitter, from Latin quiētus quiet; see quietus |