Found 4 items, similar to Quit.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: quit
berhenti
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quit
berhenti, keluar
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quit
quit
v 1: put an end to a state or an activity;
“Quit teasing your
little brother” [syn:
discontinue,
stop,
cease,
give up
,
lay off] [ant:
continue]
2: give up or retire from a position;
“The Secretary fo the
Navy will leave office next month”;
“The chairman resigned
over the financial scandal” [syn:
leave office,
step down
,
resign] [ant:
take office]
3: go away or leave [syn:
depart,
take leave] [ant:
stay]
4: turn away from; give up;
“I am foreswearing women forever”
[syn:
foreswear,
renounce,
relinquish]
5: give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat;
“In the second round, the challenger gave up” [syn:
drop out
,
give up,
fall by the wayside,
drop by the wayside
,
throw in,
throw in the towel,
chuck up the sponge
] [ant:
enter]
[also:
quitting,
quitted]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quit
Quit
\Quit\ (kw[i^]t), a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See
Quit, v.,
Quiet.]
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear;
absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer.
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The owner of the ox shall be quit. --Ex. xxi. 28.
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Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits,
colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to
have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to
be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we
are even, or on equal terms.
“To cry quits with the
commons in their complaints.” --Fuller.
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Quit
\Quit\ (kw[i^]t), n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native
of tropical America. See
Banana quit, under
Banana, and
Guitguit.
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Quit
\Quit\, v. i.
To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
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Quit
\Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Quit or
Quitted; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Quitting.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier,
cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L.
quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See
Quiet,
a., and cf.
Quit, a.,
Quite,
Acquit,
Requite.]
1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or
oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.]
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To quit you of this fear, you have already looked
Death in the face; what have you found so terrible
in it? --Wake.
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2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the
like; to absolve; to acquit.
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There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer.
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God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
--Milton.
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3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and
satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to
requite; to repay.
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The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer.
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Enkindle all the sparks of nature
To quit this horrid act. --Shak.
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Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.
--Fairfax.
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4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of;
to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
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Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --1 Sam.
iv. 9.
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Samson hath quit himself
Like Samson. --Milton.
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5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.]
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Never worthy prince a day did quit
With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel.
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6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to
depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to
quit the place; to quit jesting.
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Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth
for appearance. --Locke.
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To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse.
To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from
demands.
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Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements
in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South.
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Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake;
surrender; discharge; requite.
Usage:
Quit,
Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying
merely an act of departure; quit implies a going
without intention of return, a final and absolute
abandonment.
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Quit
\Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Quit or
Quitted; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Quitting.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier,
cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L.
quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See
Quiet,
a., and cf.
Quit, a.,
Quite,
Acquit,
Requite.]
1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or
oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.]
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To quit you of this fear, you have already looked
Death in the face; what have you found so terrible
in it? --Wake.
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2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the
like; to absolve; to acquit.
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There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer.
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God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
--Milton.
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3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and
satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to
requite; to repay.
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The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer.
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Enkindle all the sparks of nature
To quit this horrid act. --Shak.
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Before that judge that quits each soul his hire.
--Fairfax.
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4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of;
to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
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Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --1 Sam.
iv. 9.
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Samson hath quit himself
Like Samson. --Milton.
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5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.]
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Never worthy prince a day did quit
With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel.
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6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to
depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to
quit the place; to quit jesting.
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Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth
for appearance. --Locke.
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To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse.
To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from
demands.
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Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements
in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South.
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Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake;
surrender; discharge; requite.
Usage:
Quit,
Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying
merely an act of departure; quit implies a going
without intention of return, a final and absolute
abandonment.
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