quit
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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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, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.
Inflected forms:
form: quight
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: quits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: quittest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: quittedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: quits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quitteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: quitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: quits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: 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'.
gloss: To leave (a place).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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?”
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."
gloss: To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
gloss: To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;
gloss: To abandon, renounce (a thing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
gloss: To stop, give up (an activity).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: John is planning to quit smoking.
gloss: To close (an application).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature
To quit this horrid acte.
that judge that quits each soul his hire
gloss: To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
reflexive
examples: 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,
gloss: To carry through; to go through to the end.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Never worthy prince a day did quit
 With greater hazard and with more renown.
gloss: To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To repay (someone) for (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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:[…]
gloss: Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
pos: noun
Synonyms: call it quits
conclude
finish
quit
Antonyms: begin
initiate
persevere
start
Derived words: unquit
coquit
don't quit your day job
force quit
hit it and quit it
quiet quit
quit buddy
quitclaim
quit claim deed
quitline
quit lit
quitrent
quits
quit scores
quitsies
quittable
quittal
quitter
quit the oxygen habit
quit while one is ahead
ragequit
rage quit
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