quit
/kwɪt/ verb A2- To leave (a place). · The British quit India in the 1940s.
- To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.). · After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
- To stop, give up (an activity). · John is planning to quit smoking.
- To close (an application).
Plural quit · He/she/it quits · Past quit · Past participle quit · -ing form quitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- quit
- He/she/it
- quits
- Past
- quit
- Past participle
- quit
- -ing form
- quitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
I lent you money, and you returned it; that’s like good neighbors, and we are quits.”
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
“To be sure!—to be sure!” cried Dantès, eagerly quitting the table; “let us go directly!”
As for Fernand himself, he seemed to be enduring the tortures of the damned; unable to rest, he was among the first to quit the table, and, as though seeking to avoid the hilarious mirth that rose in such deafening sounds, he continued, in utter silence, to pace the farther end of the salon.
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