quit   (Sound)

The verb quit has 5 senses

• discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother")


• leave office, quit, step down, resign -- (give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal")


• depart, take leave, quit -- (go away or leave)


• foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish -- (turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever")


• drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge -- (give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up")