quit

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 kwĭt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
动词 v.
  1. To leave (a place). transitive
    — The British quit India in the 1940s.
  2. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. transitive
    — To quit you […] of this fear, […]you have already lookt Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
  3. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit. transitive
    — God will relent, and quit thee all his debt;
  4. To abandon, renounce (a thing). transitive
  5. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.). ambitransitive
    — After having to work overtime without being paid, I quit my job.
  6. To stop, give up (an activity). ambitransitive
    — John is planning to quit smoking.
  7. To close (an application). transitive
  8. To pay (a debt, fine etc.). archaic,transitive
    — Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature To quit this horrid acte.
  9. To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way). archaic,reflexive
    — 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.
  10. To carry through; to go through to the end. archaic,transitive
    — Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.
  11. To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). obsolete,transitive
    — Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight?
  12. To repay (someone) for (something). obsolete,transitive
    — 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
形容词 adj.
  1. Released from obligation, penalty, etc; free, clear, or rid. not-comparable,usually
    — 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'.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
call it quits conclude finish quit
反义词
begin initiate persevere start
上位词
desist end
下位词
call it a day call it a night draw stumps halt pause pull up stumps close up shop shut up shop give notice hang up one's boots hang up one's hat retire
衍生词
unquit coquit don't quit your day job force quit hit it and quit it quiet quit quit buddy quitclaim quit claim deed quitline quit lit quitrent quits quit scores quitsies quittable quittal quitter quit the oxygen habit quit while one is ahead ragequit rage quit

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Probably of imitative origin.
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