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v. to quit any application or software program

v. give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"

foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish

v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"

depart, take leave, quit

v. go away or leave

discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

v. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"

drop out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up the sponge

v. give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

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clear, quit, rid

adj. free from contact or proximity or connection; "we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef"

abandon, give up

v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"

hold on, stop

v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

delete, cancel

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

exit, go out, get out, leave

v. move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"

reject

v. refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

surrender, relinquish

v. relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another

vacate, resign, renounce, give up

v. leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds"

concede, yield, cede, grant

v. give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile

v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

deliver, drive home

v. carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left"

abstain, refrain, desist

v. choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol"

abdicate, renounce

v. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"

repudiate

v. reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"

disavow

v. refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with; "Her husband disavowed her after 30 years of marriage and six children"

disinherit, disown

v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting

abandon, forsake, desolate, desert

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

desert

v. leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"

stop, halt

v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

stop

v. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

hold on, stop

v. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

v. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

stop, halt, block, kibosh

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

bail

v. remove (water) from a vessel with a container

concede

v. acknowledge defeat; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose"

unconfined, unimprisoned

adj. free from confinement or physical restraint

unconstrained

adj. free from constraint; "he was unconstrained by any of the sanctions of polite society"; "the dog was unconstrained"; "idle, unconstrained gossip"

autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign

adj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

available, uncommitted

adj. not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her"

aweigh, atrip

adj. (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom

clear(p)

adj. free from contact or proximity or connection; "we were clear of the danger"; "the ship was clear of the reef"

discharged, released

adj. set free as from prison or duty

disentangled, extricated, freed

adj. having become freed from entanglement; disengaged

emancipated, liberated

adj. free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"

in the open, in the clear

adj. (sports) free of hindrance: "after eluding the tacklers he was in the clear"

out-of-school

adj. not attending school and therefore free to work; "opportunities for out-of-school youth"

unhampered

adj. not held in check or subject to control; "unhampered dissemination of news"; "this would give black people the opportunity to live unhampered by racism"

unrestricted

adj. free of restrictions on conduct; "I had unrestricted access"

take office

v. assume an office, duty, or title; "When will the new President take office?"

claim, take

v. lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear

v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"

keep, maintain, hold

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

stay

v. remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children"

arrive, get, come

v. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

go, go away, depart, travel away

v. go away from a place; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight"

preserve

v. keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"

prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

enter, participate

v. become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"

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