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  • 11quit — [v1] abandon, leave abdicate, blow*, book*, bow out, check out, cut out*, decamp, depart, desert, drop, drop out, evacuate, exit, forsake, get off, give up, go, go away from, hang it up*, leave flat*, leave hanging*, pull out, push off*,… …

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  • 12quit — [kwit] vt. QUIT or sometimes quitted, quitting, quit [ME quiten < OFr quiter < ML quittus, quietus, free: see QUIET] 1. to free (oneself) of 2. to discharge (a debt or obligation); repay 3. to stop having, using, or doing (something); give… …

    English World dictionary

  • 13Quit — Quit, v. i. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14quit — To leave or remove from. Commonly used in the context of leases when a tenant is served with a notice to quit or pay rent. United Glossary of Bankruptcy Terms 2012 …

    Glossary of Bankruptcy

  • 15quit — has the past tense and past participle quitted or (especially in AmE) quit …

    Modern English usage

  • 16quit of — index free (relieved from a burden) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 17quit — 1 acquit, comport, deport, demean, conduct, *behave Analogous words: & Contrasted words: see those at ACQUIT 2 *go, leave, depart, withdraw, retire Analogous words: forsake, desert, *abandon: * …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 18Quit — of ins so swid. – Eichwald, 1564 …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 19quit */ — UK [kwɪt] / US verb Word forms quit : present tense I/you/we/they quit he/she/it quits present participle quitting past tense quit past participle quit 1) [intransitive/transitive] informal to leave a job or school permanently His decision to… …

    English dictionary

  • 20quit — quit1 quittable, adj. /kwit/, v., quit or quitted, quitting, adj. v.t. 1. to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house. 2. to depart from; leave (a place or person): They quit the city for the seashore… …

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