Give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.
Синонимы
Examples for "quit"
Examples for "quit"
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Experts said the best way to protect children was to quit smoking.
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However, he quit the government over the affair a few weeks later.
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As a result of the court decision, several people quit their confinement.
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Junior Northern Ireland minister Shailesh Vara quit May's government earlier on Thursday.
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Larsen quit his job several years ago to join an Internet startup.
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However, he decided to drop out in 1981 during his second year.
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In the Dublin area, almost 30 per cent of students drop out.
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Unforeseen lingering issue: I had to drop out of hip-hop dance classes.
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Among all registered voters, some 44 percent want Trump to drop out.
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Ready Set Sail will probably drop out the back from barrier two.
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She hobbled along; he was far behind; he would give up soon.
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You already agreed to give up the idea of law school, Faith.
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The family is now willing to give up control, the sources said.
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Probably didn't want to give up work time to go to court.
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He didn't give up when others said he'd already lost, Corvan said.
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Now and again a man utterly worn out would drop by the wayside.
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Sixpence dropped by the wayside, and a whole family made wretched!
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I was one of the twenty-seven; eight dropped by the wayside; we ended nineteen.
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Clemens was handicapped by having to run in the slippery mud, and soon " dropped by the wayside."
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The fellows who are going to stick would simply feel that one weak-kneed chap had dropped by the wayside.
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They throw in the chocolate just as the water commences to boil.
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Greece had decided to throw in her lot with Servia and Bulgaria.
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Fred nodded sharply, and the chauffeur stooped to throw in the clutch.
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Desmond, in the mean time, was endeavouring to throw in his hand-grenades.
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But he stopped it, scrambled for it, and made the throw in.
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There's no sign yet he is ready to throw in the towel.
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She had every opportunity to throw in the towel but she didn't.
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Or do you just throw in the towel? Many are scaling up.
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Five more casts, he told himself, then he'd throw in the towel.
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It is unlikely they would just throw in the towel and capitulate.
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Wait on 'im yourself, then, and chuck up the sponge when things begin to go wrong.
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That doesn't sound like you, sir; and I don't understand why you should chuck up the sponge so quickly.
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In the face of that single circumstance you and Marchmont would ' chuck up the sponge,' as the old pugilists expressed it.
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"No more am I," I answered; "but I'm hanged if I'll chuck up the sponge.
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Microsoft needs to make sure this feature doesn't fall by the wayside.
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When people are coupling up, these friendships can fall by the wayside.
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May achieve greatly -but could also fall by the wayside.
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And we lawyers have to get on it, or fall by the wayside.
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A few of us fall by the wayside because of that.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, older methods usually fall by the wayside.
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Alas, the extremities of diet and exercise usually fall by the wayside come February.
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The pronouncements which do not evoke this wide human response fall by the wayside.
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They will get into skirmishes; some will fall by the wayside, even get trampled.
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All my class stereotypes began to fall by the wayside.
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And Philip Walton was another to fall by the wayside.
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The reason most young designers fall by the wayside is because they have credit problems.
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The naturally weak fall by the wayside as in an army on a forced march.
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And if the president does fall by the wayside this term, Pence could inherit everything.
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This argument, too, has to fall by the wayside.
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Some succeed, some fall by the wayside and, others, even the great ones, lose their way.