# quit

Pronunciation: say "KWIT" /kwɪt/

## Verb

1. To stop or give up an activity that one has been engaged in.
   - Simple: To stop doing an activity you were doing and not do it anymore.
   - _His doctor told him to quit smoking before it did any more damage to his lungs._
   - _He quit training when the pain in his knee grew worse._
2. To resign from a job, office, or other position.
   - Simple: To leave your job or position for good.
   - _Several engineers quit when the company changed its leadership._
   - _I intend to quit my position at the end of the year._
3. To abandon or renounce a thing entirely.
   - Simple: To give something up completely and turn away from it.
   - _After the health scare, he quit red meat entirely and has not touched it since._
   - _She chose to quit social media altogether, deleting every account she had ever made._
4. To close a running application or program.
   - Simple: To close a computer program so that it stops running.
   - _Quit the browser completely to free up some memory._
   - _He quit the editor without saving his changes._
5. To leave a place, departing from it.
   - Simple: To go away from a place and leave it behind.
   - _The family quit the city for a quieter life in the country._
   - _Residents were ordered to quit the premises immediately._

## Adjective

6. Free, clear, or rid of an obligation or penalty.
   - Simple: Free from something you owed or had to do.

## Verb

7. To pay a debt, fine, or similar amount that is owed. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To pay back a debt or fine that you owe.
8. To conduct or acquit oneself; to behave in a particular way. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To act or behave in a certain way.
   - _Each soldier was expected to quit himself well under fire._
   - _The apprentice quit himself honorably throughout the long ordeal._
9. To carry an undertaking through to its full completion. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To finish something all the way to the end.
10. To repay or requite someone for a kindness or an injury they have done. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To pay someone back for something good or bad that they did.

## Other meanings

- (verb) To free, release, or relieve someone from an obligation, accusation, penalty, or other burden; to acquit or absolve.
- (noun) A small passerine bird of any of several species native to tropical America.

## Origin

It comes from Middle English quiten, borrowed through Anglo-Norman and Old French quitter, from quitte ("acquitted, quit"), ultimately from Latin quietus. It is a doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus, going back to a root meaning "to rest."

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