Definitions for quit

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Spelling: [kwit]

IPA: /kwɪt/

Quit is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in quit (iqtu).

Definitions for quit

noun

1. any of various small tropical birds.

adjective

1. released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid (usually followed by of):

verb (used with object)

1. to stop, cease, or discontinue:
2. to depart from; leave (a place or person):
3. to give up or resign; let go; relinquish:
4. to release one's hold of (something grasped).
5. to acquit or conduct (oneself).
6. to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts.
7. to clear (a debt); repay.

verb (used without object)

1. to cease from doing something; stop.
2. to give up or resign one's job or position:
3. to depart or leave.
4. to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat.

Origin of quit

1175-1225; (adj.) Middle English quit(te) exempt, freed, acquitted of (Old French quite) Medieval Latin quittus, by-form of quītus (≫ Middle English quit(e); see quite

Examples for quit

His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.

On Tuesday, two senior Kremlin officials, Vladimir Avdeyenko and Boris Rapoport, quit their jobs.

He doesn't look a bit healthy and hasn't since he quit eating breakfast.

Say, I don't expect to quit cussin' him fur another thirty days yet.

Although she loved her job teaching five-year-olds, she recently quit.

And then Antonio offers to "quit the fine for one-half his goods."

But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.

When I discovered that I was unfit to hold that trust any longer, I quit.

Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.

It was either stay and keep on working, with that chance, or—quit.