Word forms: quits, quittinglanguage note: The form quit is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. If you quit, or quit your job, you choose to leave it.

Is there such a word as quit?

verb (used with object), quit or quit·ted, quit·ting. to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house. to depart from; leave (a place or person): They quit the city for the seashore every summer.

Why is it quit and not quitted?

The past tense of quit is now quit for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow quitted as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by quit by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left".