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US
/ˈkwɪt/
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[ UK /kwˈɪt/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɪt/ ]
VERB
- go away or leave
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turn away from; give up
I am foreswearing women forever -
give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
In the second round, the challenger gave up -
give up or retire from a position
The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month -
put an end to a state or an activity
Quit teasing your little brother
How To Use quit In A Sentence
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- Tre is going to be on suntan lotion duty quite a lot on the cruise. The Sun
- I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
- There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
- Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit. 2009 March | Baking Bites
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.