quit

Meanings

Adjective

• Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

Verb

• To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
• To repay (someone) for (something).
• To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
• To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
• To carry through; to go through to the end.
• 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 leave (a place).
• To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
• To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
• To close (an application).

Noun

• Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

Origin

• From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte, ultimately from Latin quietus.
• Compare Dutch kwijten ("to quit"), German Low German quitten ("to quit"), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta, Icelandic kvitta.
• Probably of imitative origin.