Quit

n.	1.	(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
a.	1.	Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. The owner of the ox shall be quit. - Ex. xxi. 28.
v. t.	1.	To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [imp. & p. p. Quit or Quitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Quitting.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? - Wake.
	2.	To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. - Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. - Milton.
	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. The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. - Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. - Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. - Fairfax.
	4.	To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; - used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. - 1 Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath quit himself Like Samson. - Milton.
	5.	To carry through; to go through to the end. Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. - Daniel.
	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. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. - Locke. To quit cost to pay; to reimburse. To quit scores to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? - South.
v. i.	1.	To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

Verb	1.	quit - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" Synonyms: cease, discontinue, lay off, stop, give up
	2.	quit - give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" Synonyms: leave office, step down, resign
	3.	quit - go away or leave Synonyms: take leave, depart
	4.	quit - turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" Synonyms: foreswear, renounce, relinquish
	5.	quit - give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, throw in the towel, throw in, give up

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