Synonyms of the word

quit

• v. (transitive, archaic) To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay (someone) for (something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
• v. (reflexive, archaic) To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To carry through; to go through to the end.
• v. (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to…
• v. (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
• v. (transitive) To leave (a place).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
• v. (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
• n. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

abandon

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
• v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
• v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
• v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
• v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
• n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
• n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
• adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

cease

• v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
• v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

depart

• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate (from).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To go away from; to leave.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
• n. (obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances.
• n. (obsolete) A going away; departure.

discontinue

• v. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop…

foreswear

• v. Alternative spelling of forswear.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

relinquish

• v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
• v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
• v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
• v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

resign

• v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
• v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.