quitted
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɪtəd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪtəd
Verb
quitted
- simple past and past participle of quit
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 25:
- He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
- 1941, Chapman Miske, The Thing in the Moonlight:
- Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
Usage notes
- See quit.
Synonyms
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