quit
♦ quit /kw'ɪt/ (quits quitting)
The form quit is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1 [VERB] V n, V
If you quit your job, you choose to leave it. (INFORMAL)
He quit his job as an office boy in Athens...
He figured he would quit before Johnson fired him.
2 [VERB] V n/-ing, V n/-ing
If you quit an activity or quit doing something, you stop doing it. (mainly AM)
A nicotine spray can help smokers quit the habit without putting on weight...
I was trying to quit smoking at the time.
= give up
3 [VERB] V n
If you quit a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it.
...the idea that humans might one day quit the earth to colonise other planets...
4 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that you are going to call it quits, you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something.
They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits...
The form quit is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1 [VERB] V n, V
If you quit your job, you choose to leave it. (INFORMAL)
He quit his job as an office boy in Athens...
He figured he would quit before Johnson fired him.
2 [VERB] V n/-ing, V n/-ing
If you quit an activity or quit doing something, you stop doing it. (mainly AM)
A nicotine spray can help smokers quit the habit without putting on weight...
I was trying to quit smoking at the time.
= give up
3 [VERB] V n
If you quit a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it.
...the idea that humans might one day quit the earth to colonise other planets...
4 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you say that you are going to call it quits, you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something.
They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits...