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    quit
    [kwit]
    verb
    quit (verb) · quits (third person present) · quit (past tense) · quit (past participle) · quitting (present participle) · quitted (past participle) · quitted (past tense)
    1. leave (a place), usually permanently:
      "he was ordered to quit the cabin immediately"
      • informal
        resign from (a job):
        "she quit her job in a pizza restaurant" · "he quit as manager of struggling Third Division City"
      • informal
        stop or discontinue (an action or activity):
        "quit moaning!" · "I want to quit smoking"
    2. archaic
      (quit oneself)
      behave in a specified way:
      "quit yourselves like men, and fight"
    adjective
    (quit of)
    quit (adjective)
    1. rid of:
      "I want to be quit of him"
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘set free’): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere ‘be still’, from quies ‘quiet’.
    quit
    [kwit]
    noun
    quit (noun) · quits (plural noun)
    1. used in names of various small songbirds found in the Caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.
    Origin
    mid 19th century: probably imitative.
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    verb
    1. leave (a place), usually permanently:
      leave
      vacate
      evacuate
      abandon
      desert
      go away from
      depart from
      move out of
      exit from
      withdraw from
      Opposite:
      occupy
      arrive at
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