quit
Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
Adjective 1 meaning
Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
Verb 4 meanings
To leave (a place).
“The British quit India in the 1940s.”
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
To abandon, renounce (a thing).
Noun 1 meaning
Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
Etymology
From Middle English quiten, quyten, from Anglo-Norman quitter, Old French quitter, from quitte (“acquitted, quit”), ultimately from Latin quietus, which itself derives from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of coy, quite, quiet, and quietus.
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QUIT at a glance
QUIT has 4 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (Q 10 + U 1 + I 1 + T 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,745 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with quit
All rhymesOne letter away
- SUIT4
- QUIZ22
- QUID14
- QUIN13
- QUIP15
- QUAT13
- DUIT5
- CUIT6
- LUIT4
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