Pronunciations (2)
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/kwɪt/
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[kʰw̥ɪt]
Adjective
Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
Usage- not-comparable
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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).
Usage- Transitive
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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?”
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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.
... to cause the tenants to quit and give the plaintiff possession of the cottages, &c., ...
The lions, if they left not the forest, would capture no prey; and the arrow, if it quitted not the bow, would not strike the mark.
At Malta the chief engineer of the ship, who always had been a good friend of mine, urged me to quit the sea; "otherwise," he said, "if you stay too long, you may, like myself, be condemned to wander about the world all your life and see your home only occasionally."
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
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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.
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God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;
To abandon, renounce (a thing).
Usage- Transitive
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
To stop, give up (an activity).
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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John is planning to quit smoking.
To close (an application).
Usage- Transitive
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
Usage- Archaic
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Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.
that judge that quits each soul his hire
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
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Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
Samſon hath quit himſelf Like Samſon,
To carry through; to go through to the end.
Usage- Archaic
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Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.
To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
Usage- Obsolete
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Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?
Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.
To repay (someone) for (something).
Usage- Obsolete
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I was but late att a Iustynge and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam and twyes smote I hym doune & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever:[…]
Noun
Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
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Verb
put an end to a state or an activity
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Quit teasing your little brother
give up or retire from a position
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The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
go away or leave
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turn away from; give up
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I am foreswearing women forever
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
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In the second round, the challenger gave up