quit

quit is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, verb, adjective, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
2. verb. Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
3. past tense & past participle. of Quit
4. adjective. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
5. adjective. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
6. adjective. 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.
7. adjective. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
8. adjective. To carry through; to go through to the end.
9. adjective. 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.
10. intransitive verb. To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
11. verb. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

    "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

12. verb. go away or leave

    Synonyms: depart

13. verb. turn away from; give up

    "I am foreswearing women forever"

    Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce

14. verb. give up or retire from a position

    "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"

    "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

    Synonyms: resign

15. verb. put an end to a state or an activity

    "Quit teasing your little brother"

    Synonyms: cease, discontinue, stop

Synonyms

depart, foreswear, relinquish, renounce, resign, cease, discontinue, stop

Common word forms

quits, quiting

Words from these letters

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