QUIT
\kwˈɪt], \kwˈɪt], \k_w_ˈɪ_t]\
Definitions of QUIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
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give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
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go away or leave
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turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
By Princeton University
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put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
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give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
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go away or leave
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turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
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To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
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To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
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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.
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To carry through; to go through to the end.
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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.
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To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; - used reflexively.
By Oddity Software
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Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
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To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
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To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
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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.
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To carry through; to go through to the end.
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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.
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To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; - used reflexively.
By Noah Webster.
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Discharge, as an obligation or duty; stop; give up; as, to quit work; forsake; as, to quit the path of duty; to depart from; as, he quit the house forever.
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Freed from.
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Quit or quitted.
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Quitting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To release from obligation, accusation, etc.: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance:-pr.p. quitting; pa.t. and pa.p. quitted.
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(B.) Set free: acquitted: released from obligation.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To cease or desist; let go; forsake; abandon.
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To acquit; free or clear.
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Discharged; released; clear; free.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Free; clear; discharged from.
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To leave; to depart from; to liberate; to release; to discharge; to requite; to abandon. To quit cost, to pay. To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. To be quits, applied to persons who separate or settle their matters on equal terms.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
