quit

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/kwɪt/]

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Senses

1. quit (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.

Example: 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'.

2. quit (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To leave (a place).

Example: The British quit India in the 1940s.

3. quit (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

Example: To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

4. quit (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

Example: God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;

Structure of the word

Roots:

kʷyeh₁ (Proto-Indo-European)

Connections

Roots: kʷyeh₁

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