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To quit means to stop doing something. You might quit a lousy job or quit smoking cigarettes.

The verb quit can also mean to leave a place or depart from a location. This meaning isn't used as frequently in conversation now as it used to be, but you can still use it to mean leaving somewhere. For example, if you choose to move from sunny California to Maine because you think you'll like the seasons better, you could say you plan to quit California for a colder climate.

DEFINITIONS OF: quit

v go away or leave

Synonyms:: depart, take leave

Antonyms:: stay
remain behind

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; walk out of
leave, usually as an expression of disapproval; congee
depart after obtaining formal permission; beat a retreat
depart hastily; plump out
depart suddenly; break camp, decamp
leave a camp

Type of:: go away, go forth, leave
go away from a place

v put an end to a state or an activity

“Quit teasing your little brother”

Synonyms:: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop

Antonyms:: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold
keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; continue, go forward, proceed
move ahead; travel onward in time or space; continue, go along, go on, keep, proceed
continue a certain state, condition, or activity; show more antonyms...

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; drop, knock off
stop pursuing or acting; leave off
stop using; sign off
cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations; retire, withdraw
withdraw from active participation; pull the plug
prevent from happening or continuing; close off, shut off
stem the flow of; cheese
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); call it a day, call it quits
stop doing what one is doing; break
give up; nol.pros., nolle pros, nolle prosequi
drop prosecution of by entering a nolle prosequi in the court records; drop out
withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values

v turn away from; give up

Synonyms:: foreswear, relinquish, renounce

Types:: disclaim
renounce a legal claim or title to

Type of:: abandon, give up
give up with the intent of never claiming again

v give up or retire from a position

Synonyms:: leave office, resign, step down

Antonyms:: take office
assume an office, duty, or title

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; give up, renounce, resign, vacate
leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; retire
go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; top out
give up one's career just as one becomes very successful; fall
lose office or power; superannuate
retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity; abdicate, renounce
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; bow out, withdraw
retire gracefully

Type of:: depart, leave, pull up stakes
remove oneself from an association with or participation in

v give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat

Synonyms:: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel

Antonyms:: enter, participate
become a participant; be involved in

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