(~s, ~ting)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The form '~' is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1.
If you ~ your job, you choose to leave it. (INFORMAL)
He ~ his job as an office boy in Athens...
He figured he would ~ before Johnson fired him.
VERB: V n, V
2.
If you ~ an activity or ~ doing something, you stop doing it. (mainly AM)
A nicotine spray can help smokers ~ the habit without putting on weight...
I was trying to ~ smoking at the time.
= give up
VERB: V n/-ing, V n/-ing
3.
If you ~ a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it.
...the idea that humans might one day ~ the earth to colonise other planets...
VERB: V n
4.
If you say that you are going to call it ~s, you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something.
They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it ~s...
PHRASE: V inflects