verb
- Put an end to a state or an activity.
- usage: "Quit teasing your little brother"
- synonyms: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, lay off
- Give up or retire from a position.
- usage: "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
- synonyms: leave office, step down, resign
- Go away or leave.
- synonyms: depart, take leave
- Turn away from; give up.
- usage: "I am foreswearing women forever"
- synonyms: foreswear, renounce, relinquish
- Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.
- usage: "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
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