quit
Pronunciation: /kwɪt/
The English word “quit” has 14 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
verb
- To leave (a place).
- To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- To stop, give up (an activity).
- To close (an application).
- To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
- To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
- To carry through; to go through to the end.
- To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
- To repay (someone) for (something).
noun
Etymology
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte,…
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