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  1. transitive verb To depart from; leave: "You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits” (Horatio Nelson).
  2. transitive verb To leave the company of: had to quit the gathering in order to be home by midnight.
  3. transitive verb To give up; relinquish: quit a job.

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  1. Middle English quiten, to release, from Old French quiter, from Medieval Latin quiētāre, quītāre, from Latin quiētus, at rest; see quiet.

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  1. from Middle English quit, quyt, quite, quyte, cwite = OFries. quit = Dutch kwijt = Middle Low German quīt, Low German quīt, quiet = Middle High German quīt, queit, German quitt = Icelandic kvittr = Swedish quitt = Danish kvit, from Old French quite, cuite, French quitte = Provencal quiti = Spanish quito = Portuguese quite, discharged, released, freed, from Middle Latin quietus, discharged, released, freed, a particular use of Latin quietus, at rest, quiet: see quiet, adjective, of which quit is a doublet. Cf. quietus.
  2. Early modern English also quite (a form still used in requite), and erroneously quight; from Middle English quiten, quyten (= Dutch kwijten = Middle Low German quiten, Low German quitten = Middle High German quīten, quiten, quitten, German quitten = Icelandic kvitta = Swedish quitta = Danish kvitte), from Old French quiter, cuiter, quitter, French quitter = Provencal Spanish Portuguese quitar = Italian quitare, chitare (Middle Latin reflex quitare, quittare), from Middle Latin quietare. pay, discharge, quit, leave, abandon, particular uses of Latin quietare, make quiet: see quiet, v., and cf. quit, a. Cf. acquit, requite.
  3. Prob. imitative.
  4. quit, v.
 

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