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quit I. adjectiv

1. chit, împăcat.

2. liberat, scăpat, debarasat;

to get quit of one's debts a scăpa de datorii;

he was quit for a cold in the head a scăpat de răceală.

quit II. verb A. tr. (amer.) past. şi part. trec. quit

1. a părăsi, a lăsa;

to quit hold of smth. a da drumul la ceva, a slobozi ceva (din mână);

to quit a house a se muta, a părăsi casa, a pleca din casă.

2. (amer.) a părăsi, a abandona, a lăsa (munca, serviciul).

3. (poetic) a plăti, a achita; (rar) a stinge, a şterge, a scuti de (o datorie);

to quit love with hate a răsplăti dragostea cu / prin ură;

death quits all scores moartea încheie toate socotelile.

quit II. verb B. intranzitiv

(înv.) a se comporta;

quit you like men purtaţi-vă ca oamenii.

quit III. substantiv

părăsire a serviciului, demisie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Your home, country, friends, all quitted.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

They quitted it only with the removal of the tea-things.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But to quit,—for him, Martin, to quit,—that was impossible!

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“While her dear father lived, any change of condition must be impossible for her. She could never quit him.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The place, Fanny, is what you will not quit, though you quit the house.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The day after, Diana and Mary quitted it for distant B-.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But Mr. Gardiner could not be seen, and Mr. Darcy found, on further inquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hitherto inhabited, to seek for one where the few wants I experienced would be more easily satisfied.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He took my hand in his, and said ever so sweetly:—'Miss Lucy, I know I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of your little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Her happiness in going with Miss Tilney, however, prevented their wishing it otherwise; and, as they were to remain only one more week in Bath themselves, her quitting them now would not long be felt.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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