quit

verb

to give up, to yield control or possession of
to admit defeat : give up
to give up, to desist from
to depart from or out of
to leave the company of
to make full payment of : pay up
to set free : relieve, release
to conduct, acquit
to give up employment
to cease normal, expected, or necessary action

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kwɪt/ / [kʰw̥ɪt]

adj

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. Compare Dutch kwijten (“to quit”), German Low German quitten (“to quit”), German quitten, quittieren, Danish kvitte, Swedish qvitta, kvitta (“to quit, leave, set off”), Icelandic kvitta.

Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
“With mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'.”

noun

Etymology: Probably of imitative origin.

Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

verb

To leave (a place).
“The British quit India in the 1940s.”
“Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?””
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
“To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?”
To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
“God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;”
To abandon, renounce (a thing).
To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
“After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.”
To stop, give up (an activity).
“John is planning to quit smoking.”
To close (an application).
To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
“Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.”
“that judge that quits each soul his hire”
To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
“Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.”
“Samſon hath quit himſelf Like Samſon,”
To carry through; to go through to the end.
“Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.”
To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
“Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?”
“Forgive me, Rogero: 'tis my fate To love thy friend and quit thy love with hate.”
To repay (someone) for (something).
“I was but late att a Iustynge and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam and twyes smote I hym doune & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood”
“But if that I knewe what his name hight, For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, I could make him ſhortly repent him forever:[…]”