quit
Verb
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Put an end to a state or an activity (synset 202686624)
"Quit teasing your little brother"subtypes:
- drop, knock off - stop pursuing or acting
- leave off - stop using
- sign off - cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations
- retire, withdraw - withdraw from active participation
- pull the plug - prevent from happening or continuing
- close off, shut off - stem the flow of
- cheese - used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
- call it a day, call it quits - stop doing what one is doing
- break - give up
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Give up or retire from a position (synset 202387509)
"The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"is a type of: depart, leave, pull up stakes - remove oneself from an association with or participation insubtypes:
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Go away or leave (synset 202012411)
subtypes:
- walk out of - leave, usually as an expression of disapproval
- congee - depart after obtaining formal permission
- beat a retreat - depart hastily
- plump out - depart suddenly
- break camp, decamp - leave a camp
same as: depart, take leave -
Turn away from;
Give up (synset 202232269)"I am foreswearing women forever"subtypes: disclaim - renounce a legal claim or title to -
Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope;
Admit defeat (synset 201085437)"In the second round, the challenger gave up"
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