quitar
/kiˈtaɾ/ · A1 · verb
to remove, to take away, to take down, to take off, to pull off, to pull out, to clear, to clear away, to strip, to strip away
🧹 quitar sounds like quit: make something quit its place
Quitar and English quit share a root, Latin quietus (at rest, freed). To quit a job is to free yourself from it; quitar is to free a thing from where it sits: a coat off your back, a stain off a shirt, plates off a table.