quit
verb
[ kwɪt ]
• leave (a place), usually permanently.
• "hippies finally quit two sites in Hampshire last night"
Similar:
leave,
go away from,
depart from,
vacate,
evacuate,
move out of,
exit from,
withdraw from,
abandon,
desert,
• behave in a specified way.
• "quit yourselves like men, and fight"
quit
adjective
• rid of.
• "I want to be quit of him"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘set free’): from Old French quiter (verb), quite (adjective), from Latin quietus, past participle of quiescere ‘be still’, from quies ‘quiet’.
quit
noun
• used in names of various small songbirds found in the Caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.
Origin:
mid 19th century: probably imitative.
