quit

Meaning

Adj

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

Verb

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

Noun

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

Synonyms

leave

stop

🛑

abandon

give up

resign

cease

forsake

desert

🏜️

relinquish

finish

end

🔚

renounce

depart

retire

exit

discontinue

terminate

vacate

drop out

yield

free

🆓

halt

go out

go away

alight

emerge

surrender

step down

release

lay off

foreswear

leave office

cancel

waive

forgo

abate

conclude

complete

leave off

conduct

pause

knock off

go down

arrest

abolish

give way

grant

give

abnegate

give in

Translations

quitter

cesser

dejar

aufhören

🛑

abandonner

verlaten

cessare

🛑

verlassen

aufgeben

abandonar

smettere

abandonar

ophouden

αφήνω

εγκαταλείπω

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: quiten

Cognate with Dutch: kwijten

Cognate with German: quitten

Cognate with Danish: kvitte

Cognate with Swedish: qvitta

Cognate with Icelandic: kvitta

In summary

From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and 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.