Quit

[kwɪt]

Definition

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

(v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.

(imp. & p. p.) of Quit

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

(a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.

(a.) 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.

(a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.

(a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.

(a.) 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.

(v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

Edited by Faye

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Deliver, clear, release, free, acquit, absolve, set free, deliver from, discharge from.[2]. Pay, discharge, settle, liquidate.[3]. Leave (with the purpose of never returning), vacate, withdraw from, go away from, retire from, depart from, get away from.[4]. Abandon, desert, forsake, resign, renounce, relinquish, forswear, cast off, give over, give up.

a. Clear, free, absolved, released, acquitted, discharged.

Checker: Wilmer

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Leave, resign, abandon, relinquish, discharge, release, surrender, give_up,depart_from, forsake

ANT:Seek, occupy, invade, bind, enforce, haunt, enter

Typed by Blanche

Definition

v.t. to pay requite: to release from obligation accusation &c.: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance: (Spens.) to remove by force: (coll.) to give over cease:—pr.p. quit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. quit′ted.—adj. (B.) set free: acquitted: released from obligation.—n. Quit′-claim a deed of release.—v.t. to relinquish claim or title to.—n. Quit′-rent a rent by which the tenants are discharged from all other services—in old records called white rent as being paid in silver money.—adj. Quit′table capable of being quitted.—ns. Quit′tal (Shak.) requital repayment; Quit′tance a quitting or discharge from a debt or obligation: acquittance: recompense.—v.t. (obs.) to repay.—Quit cost to pay expenses; Quit one's self (B.) to behave; Quit scores to balance accounts.—Be quits to be even with one; Cry quittance to get even; Double or quits in gambling said when a stake due is either to become double or be reduced to nothing according to the issue of a certain chance; Notice to quit (law) notice to a tenant of real property that he must surrender possession.

Editor: Whitney