quit
IPA: kwˈɪt
noun
- Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
verb
- (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.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
adjective
- (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
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Examples of "quit" in Sentences
- Quite the gentleman, quite the lady.
- Quit the personalizing of the issue.
- It's quite the understatement otherwise.
- Gingrich does not no the meaning of the word "quit".
- At the end of the day, Fontan quit the race in tears.
- "I do not know the meaning of the word quit," he said.
- In their version of the story the end is quite hilarious.
- The basement is quite extensive and quite eerie in places.
- A word "quit" is not found in the dictionary in the Hillary house.
- The leaves of wood sorrel are quite edible, with a tangy taste of lemons.
- It's quite the neverending monotonous project, but looks good in the end.
- The school building is quite antiquated, and the corridors are quite narrow.
- Riders can end up quite wet due to waves splashing over the side of the raft.
- Old Jane, never at a loss for a cliche, said: "The word 'quit' is not in my vocabulary."
- When Palin quit the Alaska governorship earlier this year, she blamed political enemies for harassing her out of office.
- The increase in the number of people who quit is small in comparison with the total number in the population who still smoke.
- So to take the opportunity and then decide to quit is not only lame beyond belief, but a slap in the face to all the people who tried for that place on the show, and lost out to the quitters.
- Sports figures, as a rule, seem to be the ones least likely to understand the word quit: Those who lack it in their dictionaries and vocabularies include the NASCAR owner and former driver Richard Childress, William "the Refrigerator" Perry, Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, as well as the Philadelphia Flyers, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Chicago Bears, and of course the Red Sox.
- Palin 'quit' the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after exposing the ethics violations of her own party, she then went on to become Alaska's first female and youngest governor ... but that would be something called 'context and contrast' ... two key elements that must be removed in order to pursue 'The Politics of Personsal Destruction'. mark ferbet, kansas city, mo.
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