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QUIT

Definition:

1. [verb] put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
   Synonyms: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off
   
   
2. [verb] give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary fo the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
   Synonyms: leave office, step down, resign
   
   
3. [verb] go away or leave
   Synonyms: depart, take leave
   
   
4. [verb] turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
   Synonyms: foreswear, renounce, relinquish
   
   
5. [verb] give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
   Synonyms: drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, chuck up the sponge
   
   

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Related Words:

• drop, knock off
• leave off
• sign off
• retire, withdraw
• pull the plug
• shut off, close off
• cheese
• call it quits, call it a day
• break
• vacate, resign, renounce, give up
• retire
• top out
• fall
• peel of
• walk out of
• congee
• beat a retreat
• plump out
• decamp, break camp
• disclaim

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