Quit

/kwΙͺt/ verb

To stop doing something or to leave a job, place, or activity.

From Old French *quiter* meaning 'to release, free, clear', from Latin *quietare* ('to make quiet, put at rest'), from *quietus* ('at rest, free'). It shifted from 'set free' to 'stop or leave'.

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