Word Finder - quit

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To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

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To repay (someone) for (something).

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To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

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To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

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To carry through; to go through to the end.

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To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

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To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

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To abandon, renounce (a thing).

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To leave (a place).

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To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

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After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.

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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).

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John is planning to quit smoking.

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To close (an application).

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

I'm ready to quit already.

Yeah, yeah, quit your nagging.

I guess I'll just have to quit school then.

Quit this job and move to Arkansas to be a veterinarian.

Would he expect her to quit work?

I quit smoking and I'm taking it out on everyone.

Well, don't quit on it entirely.

Of course, she couldn't simply quit and disappear from their lives.

It would be so unfair to so many people if we quit, but God almighty, it's difficult and scary.

Frankly, I agree he was being a pain in the ass, but you quit being a detective when you left the East—we're the guys still on the job.

He eyed her with a wary expression, probably not sure if he should quit while he was ahead.

The Distress for Rent Act 1737, however, enables a landlord to recover double rent from a tenant who holds over after having himself given notice to quit; while another statute in the reign of George II.

Hey, hon, Jake told me you quit work?

He's been after bad guys for thousands of years, and he's never gone to the Dark Side or quit or anything.

Alex had lost his parents and had to quit college to raise his little sister.

I help them with marketing, which was my major until I quit school.

And she quit two weeks ago.

The effect of the final Lombard invasion is shown by the resolve to quit the mainland and the rapid building of churches which is recorded by the Cronaca altinate.

He was educated for the army, and entered the artillery of the Guards as an officer in 1860, but a malady of the knee, which crippled him, forced him to quit the service in 1865.

Here the tenancy ends on the expiry of the prescribed term, without notice to quit or any other formality.

I told Fitzgerald to quit all this hero business so you don't have to worry about having to back up some cartoon story.

You didn't quit because you wanted to, but because you had to after breaking those laws to spare me and Hazel, Katie added, patting her stomach.

Nor had he made any sense of his deliberations but finally his mind quit the task and allowed his exhausted body to sink into a deep sleep.

I've made arrangements to quit my job this fall and work my residency at a clinic in Houston.

Yes, my lord.  She quit and appointed Gabriel in her stead.

If you want me to quit, keep it up.

Yet, when Edward was forced by home affairs to quit Scotland, Annandale and certain earldoms, including Carrick, were excepted from the districts he assigned to his followers, Bruce and other earls being treated as waverers whose allegiance might still be retained.

Where there is a lease for a certain period, no notice to quit is necessary.

How did she quit when he was able to hurt them?

She quit her old one to work for Xander – at Jonny's direct order.

A tenant is not entitled, without the landlord's consent, to change the character of the subjects demised, and, except under an agricultural lease, he is bound to quit the premises on the expiration of the lease.

Its makers had not conceived bupropion hydrochloride as a drug to help people quit smoking.

I love you anyway and I've quit twisting your arm about trying to dig up the past.

Every year more than half the adult males (in some districts three-fourths of the men and one-third of the women) quit their homes and wander throughout Russia in search of labour.

It is certain, however, that he was suspected by Honorius and abandoned by his own troops, and that he fled to Ravenna, and, having been induced by false promises to quit the church in which he had taken sanctuary, was assassinated on the 23rd of August 408.

Our guy didn't quit with Brenda Washington.

You made Kris and Gabe trade their souls for Katie and baby's then you quit.

The super-demon bowed his head and left.  Darkyn watched him go then looked again at the hourglass.  He hadn't expected Death to quit, but she was about to give him a new window of opportunity, one that might be more powerful.  He might soon take over the underworld and its army of souls.

In spite of his hesitancy he wasn't about to quit.

They just now realized you quit.

Past-Deidre broke two rules and quit.

Jessi arrived fifteen minutes early the next day, in case Xander or Ingrid called in a substitute after she quit.

Probably when you tried to quit.

The principal incidents of a seignory were an oath of fealty; a "quit" or "chief" rent; a "relief" of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat.

That effort was followed by great physical prostration, and he determined not to quit his retirement at Midhurst until spring had fairly set in.

When once it had taught men that the next world was God's world, though it did so at the cost of relinquishing the present to Satan, it had achieved its real task, and the time had come for it to quit the stage of history, when Christianity appeared as the heir of this true spiritual achievement.

As under the republic, the praefect was not allowed to quit the city for more than a day at a time.

In 1827 he at length made up his mind to quit the law, and was ordained deacon the same year.

But James at once declared himself king, had Alopo killed and Sforza imprisoned, and kept his wife in a state of semi-confinement; this led to a counteragitation on the part of the barons, who forced James to liberate Sforza, renounce his kingship, and eventually to quit the country.

On the 16th of September his disapproval of the popular excesses at Warsaw caused him to quit the government after sacrificing half his fortune to the national cause; but it must be admitted that throughout the insurrection he did not act up to his great reputation.