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quittingnoun the act of leaving a placewe simply didn't know what to make of the couple's sudden quitting of the party decamping, decampment, departing, departure, exit, exiting, farewell, going, leave, leave-taking, lighting out, outgo, parting, walking out flight, retirement, retreat, running away, withdrawaldiaspora, emigration, evacuation, exodusembarkation, embarkmentdisembarkation, egressabandonment, forsaking, relinquishment advent, appearance, arrival comingapproach, entrance, ingress quittingverbpresent participle of quitto give up (a job or office)he decided to quit his job at the fast-food restaurant bagging, chucking, leaving, resigning (from), retiring (from), stepping aside (from), stepping down (from) abandoning, vacatingdropping out (of), throwing up giving notice staying (at) hiring (out or on) to stop doing (something) permanentlyher doctor told her it was high time she quit smoking abandoning, discontinuing, dropping, giving up, knocking off, laying off (of), packing (up or in) breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, ending, expiring, finishing, halting, leaving off, shutting offpausing, tapering offthrowing uprounding (off or out), terminating, winding up, wrapping up hanging it up, having done (with) carrying on, continuing, keeping, keeping up, maintaining going, running onhanging in, hanging on, holding on, persevering, persistingfollowing through (with)renewing, reopening, restarting, resumingpreserving, stayingbeginning, commencing, starting to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endquit pestering your coworkers with pointless questions breaking, breaking off, breaking up, canning(slang), ceasing, cutting off, cutting out, desisting (from), discontinuing, dropping, ending, giving over, halting, knocking off, laying off, leaving off, packing (up or in), shutting off, stopping completing, concluding, finishingclosing (down)deactivatingblockading, blocking, damming, delaying, detaining, hindering, holding, holding back, impeding, kiboshing, obstructing, stemmingcalling, suspendingarresting, braking, checking, clamping down, reining (in), squashing, squelching, stamping, stanching(or staunching), stunting, suppressing, turning backpausing, staying, suspendingabolishing, aborting, annulling, demolishing, destroying, dissolving, killing, ruining, scuttling, snuffing having done with, putting the kibosh on carrying on, continuing, following through (with), keeping up, running onadvancing, proceeding, progressingactuating, driving, impelling, propelling, stirring to cause to remain behindhe quit the house sometime around nine this morning and hasn't been seen since abandoning, deserting, forsaking, leaving, marooning, stranding discarding, ditching, dumping, flinging, jettisoning, junking, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), throwing away, throwing outdelivering, giving up, handing over, relinquishing, surrendering, yieldingescaping, retreating (from), taking off (from), vacating, withdrawing (from)abjuring, cutting off, disowning, rejecting, renouncing, repudiating, separating (from)sacrificingdistancingdisregarding, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting walking away from, walking out on reclaiming harboring, having, holding, keeping, owning, possessing, reserving, retaining, withholdingredeeming, rescuing, saving to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)tried to persuade his daughter to remain at home, but eventually he just quit and let her go out on her own blinking, bowing, budging, capitulating, conceding, giving in, knuckling under, relenting, submitting, succumbing, surrendering, yielding acquiescingdeferring saying uncle, throwing in the towel(also throwing in the sponge) resisting contending, fighting, holding offbattling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstanding to come to an endwill this teasing ever quit? breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to give what is owed foreager to quit all debts before starting married life anteing (up), balancing, clearing, discharging, footing, liquidating, meeting, paying, paying off, paying up, ponying up, recompensing, settling, springing (for), standing repudiating to leave a place often for anotherwe plan to quit the amusement park around seven tonight and then head to the diner for some food bailing, bailing out, booking(slang), buggering off(British slang), bugging off, bugging out, buzzing (off), clearing off(chiefly British), clearing out, cutting out, departing, digging out, exiting, getting, getting off, going, going off, moving, packing (up or off), parting, peeling off, piking (out or off), pulling out, pushing off, pushing on, running along, sallying (forth), scarpering(British), shoving (off), stepping (along), taking off, vamoosing, walking out setting out, starting, striking outabsconding, decamping, escaping, evacuating, fleeing, flying, getting out, mizzling(chiefly British), running away, scatting, scramming, skippinggoing out, lighting out, stepping outabandoning, deserting, forsaking, vacatingemigratingadjourning, removing, retiring, retreating, withdrawing beating it, hitting the road, pulling stakes(or pulling up stakes), taking a hike(also taking a walk), taking a powder arriving, coming, showing up, turning up abiding, dwelling, lodging, remaining, settling, staying, tarryingapproaching, closing, nearinghitting, landing, reaching to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular wayI thought the kids quitted themselves quite well at the concert tonight acquitting, bearing, behaving, carrying, comporting, conducting, demeaning, deporting checking, collecting, composing, constraining, containing, controlling, curbing, handling, inhibiting, quieting, repressing, restrainingmoderating, modulating, temperingacting, impersonating, playing acting up, carrying on, cutting up, misbehaving, misconducting |