Skip to main content

quit

/kwit/US // kwɪt //UK // (kwɪt) //

退出,辞职,戒掉

Related Words

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    quit or quit·ted, quit·ting.

    • : to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
    • : to depart from; leave: They quit the city for the seashore every summer.
    • : to give up or resign; let go; relinquish: He quit his claim to the throne. She quit her job.
    • : to release one's hold of.
    • : to acquit or conduct.
    • : to free or rid: to quit oneself of doubts.
    • : to clear; repay.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    quit or quit·ted, quit·ting.

    • : to cease from doing something; stop.
    • : to give up or resign one's job or position: He keeps threatening to quit.
    • : to depart or leave.
    • : to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid: quit of all further responsibilities.

Phrases

  • quite a bit
  • quit while one's ahead
  • call it quits

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbabandon, leave
Forms: quitting
verbstop doing something
Forms: quitting

Examples

  • She quits cold turkey — “It took four days,” she says — after meeting her husband Kevin Hunter.

  • Naturally, you want to share this workload with your husband, but requesting he quit something he has done for years was going to be met with understandable resistance.

  • A few people quit high school to do the show and then got their GEDs, and we were aware that getting this job was changing their life trajectory.

  • For the family, if Peter quit flying, it meant he’d be home more to help with the kids.

  • Despite the threats and harassment not one Parler employee has quit.

  • Park employees helped John quit tobacco by way of a butts-proof glass enclosure, a drastic change in diet, and regular exercise.

  • But they had not quit and here they now were as the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums came into the Garden.

  • Army B-squad players who fail to make it onto the varsity team after a year or two usually quit football.

  • On Tuesday, two senior Kremlin officials, Vladimir Avdeyenko and Boris Rapoport, quit their jobs.

  • His breath became so strained that he was forced to quit his job as a horticulturalist for the parks department.

  • Hain't I kep' in doors uv a nite, an quit chawn tobacker and smokin' segars just to please her?

  • And knowing that bunch as well as I do, I don't think they'll lift the plunder and quit the country till they can go together.

  • The seller may safely give a quit-claim deed for he thereby sells only whatever interest he may have.

  • King Edward refused to believe the evidence of his senses, and obstinately refused to quit the field.

  • That you and Jim don't mention the sale to anybody, and keep on runnin' the place—for wages—until I'm ready for you to quit.