DEMIT

PRONUNCIATION: (di-MIT)

MEANING: verb tr.: To give up an office or a position; to dismiss.
verb intr.: To resign.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French demettre, from Latin demittere (to dismiss, relinquish, send away), from dis- (away) + mittere (to send). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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DREMIT - the rapper pays his bill

DAMIT - 1. to tell beavers to obstruct a stream; 2. to swear at them afterwards

DEIT - what a dyslexic does to lose weight

DEFIT - to make one's clothes saggy-baggy (see DEIT above)