Word Finder - quits

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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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On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

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Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?

Don't make me be the one to call it quits.

Yes. He said he was sorry but he and Martha said they had to call it quits and he was going back to be with his wife and child.

Its principal tributaries are the Thaya, the Hanna, the Iglawa with the Zwittawa and the Schwarzawa, &c. The Oder also rises among the mountains in the north-east of Moravia, but soon turns to the north and quits the country.

The average elevation above the sea-level is 1640 ft.; the lowest point is at Bottingen (410 ft.), where the Neckar quits the country; the highest is the Katzenkopf (3775 ft.), on the Hornisgrinde, on the western border.

Garth Brooks called it quits in 2000 so he could spend more time at home in Oklahoma with his three daughters and his second wife, fellow country star Trisha Yearwood.

At low tide the limpet (being a strictly intertidal organism) is exposed to the air, and (according to trustworthy observers) quits its attachment and walks away in search of food (minute encrusting algae), and then once more returns to the identical spot, not an inch in diameter, which belongs, as it were, to it.

The glochidium quits the gillpouch of its parent and swims by alternate opening and shutting of the valves of its shell, as do adult Pecten and Lima, trailing at the same time a long byssus thread.

Each spirit, as it quits its nanja or natural haunt to enter the mother, drops a churinga, a slab of stone or wood marked with the child's totem and containing its spirit attributes.

The route quits that of the Albula Pass at Thusis, passes first through the celebrated gorge of the Via Mala, then through the Schams basin and past Andeer, beyond which the Rofna gorge gives access to the village of Sphigen (from which the pass takes its name) in the upper reach of the main or Hinter branch of the Rhine.

It runs from the mouth of Loch Ryan in a sinuous north-easterly direction, keeping near the northern limit of the region till it reaches the basin of the Nith, where it quits the Uplands altogether, descends into the lowlands of Ayrshire, and, after circling round the headwaters of the Nith, strikes south-eastwards across half the breadth of the Uplands, then sweeps north and eastwards between the basins of the Clyde, Tweed and Annan, and then through the moors that surround.

It is realism as well as idealism, and never quits its hold on facts.

The gorged and fertilized female quits her hold of the host, and falling to the ground, proceeds after a short delay to lay her eggs in some sheltered spot.

You see, over there were the infant clothes quits and the intimate apparel begins.

The shaman's personal soul quits his body in a trance to hold intercourse with spirits.

The matter leaving the conductor, whether the products of combustion or the drops of a liquid, supplies the means of securing equality of potential between the conductor and the air at the spot where the matter quits electrical connexion with the conductor.

As admirable and necessary as this commitment is, it can blind you to when it's necessary to call it quits.

Drivers can mistreat or beat up their cars and ignore or delay necessary maintenance and repairs until their car quits running, so age makes a difference when searching for a used car.

When love remains a major factor for both parties, it makes sense to save a marriage instead of calling it quits permanently.

For more information and help with calling it quits check out the best way to quit smoking, Smokefree.gov or Quit Smokeless.

Whether the person quits smoking all at once (going "cold turkey") or gradually cuts down on his use of tobacco, he will probably find that his symptoms are most bothersome during the first week.

Eventually she decided to call it quits in May 2011.

Paul McCartney and Heather Mills have called it quits after four years of marriage.

Depending on who is doing the gossiping, Bloom and Bosworth have not officially broken up or Orlando Bloom has called it quits, citing their careers keep them apart too much to establish a stable relationship.

With less than a month before the season premiere, Dancing with the Stars contestant Vincent Pastore has called it quits.

The two dated on and off for the next couple of years until calling it quits in 2003.

Comedians Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have called it quits to their five-year relationship.

As everyone knows by now, Hef and his three ladies, Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt have called it quits.

Paris Hilton called it quits with the man she once called "…my love, my heart and my soul" Benji Madden.

When former girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, announced that she was pregnant, Mr. All American was off in Paris, gallivanting with Gisele, whom, it was rumored, he began dating before he and Bridget called it quits.

In October of 2008, Joaquin Phoenix decided to call it quits on his acting career and announced that he was saying good bye to Hollywood.

Holly Madison has called it quits on her first post-Hef relationship with magician Criss Angel.

The good news is that once a smoker quits the health effects are immediate and dramatic.

A smoker who quits for good often feels a lot better too, with less fatigue and fewer respiratory illnesses.

If your toaster oven quits working properly, you can attempt to fix it yourself or have a professional do the job.

Am I over-reacting here and should I just go ahead and call it quits?

Both girls called it quits at four in the morning when they heard loud knocks on the wall behind the bed and ran down to finish the night on the couch.

However, after enduring months of flying between her home in Los Angeles and the All My Children set in New York, Budig called it quits.

Pamela - She and Chase call it quits, and she thinks about the possibility of dating again, deciding to try speed dating.

So distraught, she quits the intern program.

Between pending lawsuits and users leaving in droves to places like Kazaa and LimeWire, WinMX decided to call it quits after a very brave run of things.

Strontium 90 had plans to play as a band for a Gong reunion show and then called it quits, but the three existing members of The Police recruited Strontium 90 member Andy Summers to their band.

The couple was on again, off again for years before finally calling it quits.

It seems that the fireworks were limited to the show because the couple called it quits shortly afterward and the ring was sold at auction on eBay.

Lauren gives Jason another chance and Heidi quits school and begins work at Bolthouse Productions.

If she quits or gets fired though, her bonus disappears.

If she quits, fails, or gets fired, she receives nothing.

Survivorman lasted for three seasons before Les Stroud decided to call it quits, citing the toll it was taking on his health and his family.

Buffy, however, will have nothing of it and quits the council and continues to work with Giles.

We don't know when it happened so we tried twice to hit the time and struck out and called it quits.

As soon as I related the news of the prior evening attack he told me he agreed it was time to call it quits.