Dictionary Definition
quit
Verb
1 put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit
teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off] [ant:
continue]
2 give up or retire from a position; "The
Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman
resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave
office, step down,
resign] [ant: take
office]
5 give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope;
admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" [syn:
drop
out, give
up, fall
by the wayside, drop
by the wayside, throw in,
throw
in the towel, chuck
up the sponge] [ant: enter] [also: quitting, quitted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kwɪt/
- SAMPA: /kwIt/
Usage notes
- The past tense of quit is now quit for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow quitted as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by quit by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ie. She quitted her job.
- In sense 1. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
References
Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Cambridge University Press, p. 453.Translations
to stop doing something
- Arabic:
- Catalan: deixar, aturar
- Chinese: 放棄, 放弃 (fàngqì)
- Dutch: ophouden met, stoppen
- Esperanto: ĉesi
- Finnish: lopettaa, lakata
- French: abandonner (NOT: quitter)
- German: aufhören
- Hungarian: abbahagyni
- Italian: smettere
- Japanese: 止める (yameru)
- Korean: 그만두다 (geumanduda)
- Portuguese: parar
- Russian: бросать (brosát’)
- Slovene: končati
- Spanish: dejar, parar
- Swedish: sluta, sluta upp, upphöra, höra upp
- Telugu: వదలిపెట్టు (vadalipeTTu)
to give up a habit
- Catalan: deixar
- Dutch: opgeven, stoppen met
- Esperanto: ĉesi, rezigni
- Finnish: luovuttaa, luopua
- French: abandonner, NOT: quitter
- German: aufgeben, sein lassen
- Italian: abbandonare
- Japanese: 止める (yameru)
- Portuguese: desistir
- Slovene: nehati
- Spanish: dejar
- Swedish: sluta
- Telugu: వదులుకొను (vadulukonu)
to leave a locality
- Catalan: sortir, eixir
- Dutch: verlaten
- Esperanto: forlasi
- Finnish: lähteä, poistua, jättää
- French: quitter
- German: verlassen
- Italian: lasciare
- Japanese: 辞める
- Portuguese: sair, abandonar
- Spanish: salir, abandonar
- Swedish: lämna
- Telugu: వదలివెళ్ళు (vadaliveLLu)
- ttbc Bulgarian: преставам (1), спирам (1), зарязвам (2), напускам (3)
- ttbc Indonesian: keluar, berhenti, menghentikan
Extensive Definition
Quit can mean:
- To quit, or resign from, one's job or in general any activity being performed
- To quit, or cease, an addiction
- QUIT!, the activist group
- An abbreviation of grassquit, a small bird of the tropical Americas
- An "I Quit" match in wrestling
- The Quit India Movement
- Quitting, a Chinese film
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandon, abdicate, abjure, abort, abscond, acquit, act, atone, back out, be pensioned, be
superannuated, bear, beat a
retreat, beat it, beg off, belay, blow, bow out, cancel, carry, cease, chuck, clear, clear of, clear off, come
off, compensate,
comport, conduct, cry off, cut it out,
cut out, decamp, demean, demit, depart, depart from, deport, desert, desist, desist from, disappear, discard, discharge, discharged, discontinue, disuse, drop, drop it, drop out, end, evacuate, exempt from, exit, flee, forsake, free, free of, get away, get away
from, get off, get satisfaction, give notice, give over, give up,
go, go back on, go on,
halt, have done with,
hold, indemnify, jettison, jilt, kick back, knock it off,
knock off, lay off, leave,
leave behind, leave flat, leave off, let go, liquidate, make amends, make
good, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make
retribution, make up for, make up to, maroon, nol-pros, not pursue
with, pay, pay back, pay in
kind, pay off, pay up, pension off, pull out, put behind one, quit
cold, quit of, recompense, recoup, redress, refrain, refund, reimburse, relinquish, remove, renege, renounce, renounce the throne,
repay, requite, resign, retire, retire from office,
retreat, reward, rid, rid of, satisfy, say goodbye to,
scrub, secede, settle, shed of, shut of,
skip, square, stand aside, stand down,
stay, step aside, stop, superannuate, surcease, surrender, take leave of, take
off, terminate, throw
over, vacate, vanish, waive, withdraw, withdraw
from