| 释义 |
quit
I. \ˈkwit, usu -id.+V\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English quit, quite, from Old French quite
1. : released from obligation, charge, or penalty : absolved, acquitted; especially : free
< quit of unnecessary fears >
2. obsolete : destitute, bereft — used with of
3. obsolete : quits
II. verb
(quit also quitted ; quit also quitted ; quitting ; quits)
Etymology: Middle English quiten, quitten, from Middle French quiter, quitter, from Old French, from quite free of, released, calm, from Latin quietus calm, quiet — more at quiet
transitive verb
1. : to set free : relieve, release
< quit me of fear >
2. : to pay up : discharge
< may fairly quit the debt — William Cowper >
3. : conduct, acquit
< youths quit themselves like men >
4. : to leave or leave off from: as
a. : to depart from or out of
< as soon as she quitted the room he returned to it — W.H.Hudson †1922 >
< quitted Cambridge … before being formally ejected — Douglas Bush >
b. : to leave especially peremptorily the company of
< the hero quitted him with some contempt — George Meredith >
c. : to give over (as a way of thought, acting, or living) : relinquish, abandon, forsake
< a tribe that quitted the plains for the mountains >
d. : to terminate (as an action, activity, or employment) especially with finality : leave
< quit a job >
intransitive verb
1. : to leave off or cease normal, expected, or necessary action
< the engine coughed, sputtered, and quit >
2. : to give up employment : stop working : leave
< a worker quitting because of poor pay >
3. : to give up : admit defeat : stop struggling, fighting, or contending
< despairing creatures who have quit on life — Time >
Synonyms: see behave, go, stop
III. noun
(-s)
1. : the act or action of quitting
< a factory with many quits per year among its workers >
2. : tendency to quit
< a fighter with little quit in him >
IV. noun
(-s)
Etymology: probably imitative
: any of various small passerine birds chiefly of the West Indies (as banana quit and grassquit) |