Thesaurus / quit
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She quits cold turkey — “It took four days,” she says — after meeting her husband Kevin Hunter.
WENDY WILLIAMS SEEMS LIKE THE PERFECT LIFETIME MOVIE SUBJECT. SO WHY IS IT SO UNSETTLING TO WATCH?BETHONIE BUTLERJANUARY 31, 2021WASHINGTON POSTNaturally, you want to share this workload with your husband, but requesting he quit something he has done for years was going to be met with understandable resistance.
SHARING THE WORKLOAD AT HOME WHEN ONE CHILD HAS SPECIAL NEEDSMEGHAN LEAHYJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA few people quit high school to do the show and then got their GEDs, and we were aware that getting this job was changing their life trajectory.
HOW ‘FREAKS AND GEEKS’ WENT FROM MISFIT DRAMEDY TO CULT CLASSIC, AS TOLD BY ITS CAST AND CREATORS: ‘PEOPLE JUST LIKE IT SO MUCH THAT IT THRUSTS ITSELF FROM THE GRAVE’SONIA RAOJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTFor the family, if Peter quit flying, it meant he’d be home more to help with the kids.
THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU TRY.BY ELIZABETH WEILJANUARY 25, 2021PROPUBLICADespite the threats and harassment not one Parler employee has quit.
HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CHAIRWOMAN REQUESTS FBI PROBE OF PARLER, INCLUDING ITS ROLE IN CAPITOL SIEGETOM HAMBURGER, CRAIG TIMBERGJANUARY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLowen ended up quitting the show within a year for other reasons.
WHEN FREE SPEECH CLASHES WITH KEEPING YOUR JOBKARLA MILLERJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs reported by The Korea Herald, LG Electronics CEO Kwon Bong-Seok sent out a staff-wide memo that the company was considering making major changes to its smartphone division, including possibly quitting the smartphone business.
LG SAYS IT MIGHT QUIT THE SMARTPHONE MARKETRON AMADEOJANUARY 20, 2021ARS TECHNICAIt also meets military specifications for sealing against dust, wind, shock, vibration, so it won’t quit in high noise, harsh conditions, and high use.
RECEIVE AND TRANSMIT CLEAR MESSAGES WITH THESE RELIABLE WALKIE-TALKIESPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMJANUARY 19, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCESuccesses proved fleeting, setbacks proved dispiriting and, before his star-making turn in “Hamilton,” Odom considered quitting show business.
AFTER ‘HAMILTON,’ LESLIE ODOM JR. JUST WANTED TO BE HIMSELF. THEN THE ROLE OF SAM COOKE CAME CALLING.THOMAS FLOYDJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMy father had to quit high school in order to help support his family during the Depression.
A PRODIGY WHO CRACKED OPEN THE COSMOSCLAUDIA DREIFUSJANUARY 12, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEWORDS RELATED TO QUIT
- abstaining
- arresting
- avoiding
- being temperate
- ceasing
- checking
- curbing
- desisting
- eschewing
- forbearing
- foregoing
- giving up
- going on the wagon
- halting
- inhibiting
- interrupting
- keeping
- leaving off
- not doing
- passing
- passing up
- quitting
- renouncing
- resisting
- restraining
- sitting out
- stopping
- taking the cure
- taking the pledge
- withholding
- acquiesce
- be merciful
- capitulate
- cave in
- change one's mind
- come around
- comply
- cool it
- cry uncle
- die away
- drop
- ease
- ease off
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- ebb
- fall
- fold
- forbear
- give in
- give quarter
- give some slack
- give up
- give way
- go along with
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- have mercy
- have pity
- lay back
- let go
- let it happen
- lighten up
- mellow out
- melt
- moderate
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- relax
- say uncle
- show mercy
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- yield
- acquiesced
- came around
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- cried uncle
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- crying uncle
- dropping
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- having mercy
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- saying uncle
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- back down
- cast
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- cede
- cut loose
- desert
- discard
- ditch
- drop
- drop like hot potato
- drop out
- dump
- forbear
- forgo
- forsake
- forswear
- hand over
- kick
- kiss good-bye
- lay aside
- leave
- opt out
- quit
- quit cold turkey
- release
- renounce
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- resign
- retire from
- sacrifice
- shed
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- surrender
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- take the oath
- take the pledge
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- waive
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- vacated
- waived
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- takes the pledge
- vacates
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- abstain from
- apostacize
- arrogate
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- disown
- divorce oneself from
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- leave off
- opt out
- quit
- rat
- recant
- relinquish
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- resign
- sell out
- spurn
- swear off
- take the pledge
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- throw off
- throw over
- toss over
- turn
- waive
- walk out on
- wash hands of
- abdicated
- abjured
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- abstain from
- apostacized
- arrogated
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- discarded
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- disowned
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- dropped out
- dumped
- eschewed
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- gave up
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- ratted
- recanted
- relinquished
- repudiated
- resigned
- sold out
- spurned
- swore off
- tergiversated
- tergiversed
- threw off
- threw over
- took the pledge
- tossed over
- turned
- waived
- walked out on
- washed hands of
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.