quit meaning
EN[kwɪt] [-ɪt]US
WQuit
- Quit may refer to:
- Smoking cessation
- Quit (band), an American pop-punk group
- "QUIT", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1990 album The Ghost in Science
- Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)
FR quit
- NounPLquits
- VerbSGquitsPRquittingPT, PPquitted
- (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
- (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
- (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
- (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- John is planning to quit smoking.
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
- simple past tense and past participle of quit.
- (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- He quit working for the company and decided to go it alone as a consultant, instead.
- Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?
- If there is anyone in the audience who can't stand someone pushing a Shinji x Rei thing, I know you want to quit on this fic now.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Though he fell off the wagon several times, he eventually succeeded in quitting.
- After six months of twelve-hour workdays, most people just burn out and quit.
- Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of quit in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary