quit

Senso (English)

Adj

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

Verb

1. To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
2. (obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
3. (obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
4. To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
5. To carry through; to go through to the end.
6. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
7. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
8. To abandon, renounce (a thing).
9. To leave (a place).
10. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
11. To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
12. To close (an application).

Noun

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

Synonyms

leave

stop

🛑

abandon

resign

give up

cease

forsake

desert

🏜️

relinquish

finish

end

🔚

renounce

depart

retire

discontinue

exit

terminate

drop out

vacate

yield

free

🆓

halt

go away

emerge

step down

go out

lay off

release

alight

surrender

leave off

complete

conclude

conduct

knock off

cancel

forgo

pause

waive

foreswear

leave office

abate

descend

provide

drop by the wayside

capitulate

take leave

get off

get out

suspend

accomplish

shut down

abrogate

give

give in

redeem

let go

pull the plug

give way

let

arrest

submit

abdicate

fall by the wayside

go down

stop doing

leave behind

break

abolish

cheese

🧀

grant

abnegate

secede from

abjure

interrupt

chuck up the sponge

clear off

concede

secede

close

abort

throw in the towel

close out

depart from

throw in

guide

hang on

hang up

hold up

hold-up

immunity

immunization

impart

indulge

interject

intermit

interruption

jettison

kick

kill

🔪🩸👤

lacquer

lay over

lead

leak

let alone

let oneself go

liquidate

maroon

nash

omit

open up

pack

pass

pay up

peaceful

pull out

punctuate

purvey

put away

put down

put in

reach

receipt

🧾

refrain

reject

relief

relieve

remission

remit

repudiate

rest

result

retreat

round off

scrub

scuttle

seal

🦭

separate

set-back

settle up

shellac

shutoff

sign off

silent

🔇

snitch

snuff out

solution

somebody

something

spare

spend

split

stall

stand still

stand up

start

stay

stoppage

succumb

suffice

supply

switch on

take off

termination

throw over

throw up

trig

turn on

turn over a new leaf

unrestrained

upend

varnish

wage

walk out

wash one’s hands of

wash out

withdraw

barge in

get away from

give over

go forth

go without

have done with

put out of action

retire from office

spit upon

stop over

distance oneself from

withdraw from

cut one’s ties with

shuttingdown

divorce

retirement

waste

go away from

abandon one’s position

burst in on

droup out

go from

relinquish to

retire from

snap out of

clear from obligation

click off

phase-down

throw-out of

absolve

abstain

abstain from

abstention

abut

accede

accommodate

accord

achieve

acquit

adjoin

adjourn

administer

afford

allow

amount

arise

arrive at

ascend

assign

attain

back down

back off

back out

balk

behave

belay

be next to

break in

break off

break short

break up

bring

call it quits

call off

cast out

cede

cessation

channel

check out

climb

close up

come

confer

cum

cut

cut off

cut short

deliver

denounce

desist

despair

destroy

detain

discard

disclaim

discontinuous

dislodge

dismiss

dispatch

donate

don’t

drive

drop

dwelling

enough

exempt

exemption

fail

fall in

finalise

finalize

foil

fold

fold up

from

furnish

get

get away

get out of a car

get through

go

go straight

go up

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kwɪt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: quiten

Cognate with olandese: kwijten

Cognate with tedesco: quitten

Cognate with danese: kvitte

Cognate with svedese: qvitta

Cognate with islandese: kvitta

In summary

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus.
Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.