Usually means: Cease or discontinue an activity.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word quit:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. quit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quit, quit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quit, quit: Wordnik
  7. quit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. quit: Wiktionary
  9. quit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Quit, quit: Dictionary.com
  13. quit (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Quit (band), Quit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quit: Rhymezone
  19. quit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Quit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. quit: Free Dictionary
  23. quit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. -quit, quit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. quit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. -quit: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. quit: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -quit, quit: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quit: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. -quit, quit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. QUIT: Acronym Finder
  3. -quit, quit: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. QUIT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (usually followed by of) Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid.
verb:  (transitive) To leave (a place).
verb:  (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
verb:  (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
verb:  (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
verb:  (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
verb:  (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
noun:  Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

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