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Quit Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house. |
| 2. | to depart from; leave (a place or person): They quit the city for the seashore every summer. |
| 3. | to give up or resign; let go; relinquish: He quit his claim to
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the throne. She quit her job. |
| 4. | to release one's hold of (something grasped). |
| 5. | to acquit or conduct (oneself). |
| 6. | to free or rid (oneself): to quit oneself of doubts. |
| 7. | to clear (a debt); repay. |
–verb (used without object) | 8. | to cease from doing something; stop. |
| 9. | to give up or resign one's job or position: He keeps threatening to quit. |
| 11. | to stop trying, struggling, or the like; accept or acknowledge defeat. |
–adjective | 12. | released from obligation, penalty, etc.; free, clear, or rid (usually fol. by of): quit of all further responsibilities. |
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From Dictionary Smoking Definition–noun | 1. | the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, esp. the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter. |
| 2. | something resembling this, as vapor or mist, flying particles, etc. |
| 3. | something unsubstantial, evanescent, or without result: Their hopes and dreams proved to be smoke. |
| 4. | an obscuring condition: the smoke of controversy. |
| 5. | an act or spell of smoking something, esp. tobacco: They had a smoke during the intermission. |
| 6. | something for smoking, as a cigar or cigarette: This is the best smoke on the market. |
| 8. | Slang. a homemade drink consisting of denatured alcohol and water. |
| 9. | Physics, Chemistry. a system of solid particles suspended in a gaseous medium. |
| 10. | a bluish or brownish gray color. |
–verb (used without object) | 11. | to give off or emit smoke, as in burning. |
| 12. | to give out smoke offensively or improperly, as a stove. |
| 13. | to send forth steam or vapor, dust, or the like. |
| 14. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of tobacco or the like, as from a pipe or cigarette. |
| 15. | Slang. to ride or travel with great speed. |
–verb (used with object) | 17. | to draw into the mouth and puff out the smoke of: to smoke tobacco. |
| 18. | to use (a pipe, cigarette, etc.) in this process. |
| 20. | to fumigate (rooms, furniture, etc.). |
| 21. | to cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke. | |
| 22. | to color or darken by smoke. |
—Verb phrase| 23. | smoke out, | a. | to drive from a refuge by means of smoke. |
| b. | to force into public view or knowledge; reveal: to smoke out the leaders of the spy ring. |
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—Idiom| 24. | go up or end in smoke, to terminate without producing a result; be unsuccessful: All our dreams went up in smoke. |
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