Meaning

(usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
2. (transitive) To leave (a place).
3. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
4. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
5. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
6. (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
7. (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
8. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).

Example Sentences

With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.

The British quit India in the 1940s.

Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”

He quitted the lake on the 23rd of September, and on the 4th of October arrived at Queenstown, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, having succeded in finding a transitable route.

... to cause the tenants to quit and give the plaintiff possession of the cottages, &c., ...

The lions, if they left not the forest, would capture no prey; and the arrow, if it quitted not the bow, would not strike the mark.

At Malta the chief engineer of the ship, who always had been a good friend of mine, urged me to quit the sea; "otherwise," he said, "if you stay too long, you may, like myself, be condemned to wander about the world all your life and see your home only occasionally."

To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

Word Forms

• quight
• quits
• quitting
• quit
• quitted
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Use quit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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