quit

adjective

1. 1

   Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

   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'.

verb

1. 1

   To leave (a place).

   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., ...

2. 2

   To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

   To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

3. 3

   To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

   God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;

4. 4

   To abandon, renounce (a thing).

5. 5

   To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

   After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.

6. 6

   To stop, give up (an activity).

   John is planning to quit smoking.

7. 7

   To close (an application).

8. 8

   archaicTo pay (a debt, fine etc.).

   Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.

   that judge that quits each soul his hire

9. 9

   archaicTo conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

   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,

10. 10

    archaicTo carry through; to go through to the end.

    Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.

11. 11

    obsoleteTo repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

    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.

12. 12

    obsoleteTo repay (someone) for (something).

    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:[…]

noun

1. 1

   Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

Forms

plural

quits

past tense

quitted

past participle

quitted

present participle

quitting

third person singular

quits