as in to dump
to end a usually intimate relationship with
still trying to get over being jilted by his longtime girlfriend
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Recent Examples of jilt
Then there’s the whole debacle of the league’s attempt to jilt the U.S. Open Cup, presumably because they were no longer directly connected to the marketing or televising of the event.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Screeching and yelling, jilted lovers, and generational disappointment flood into a finale as theatrical as a Broadway stage play despite affecting performances, wrapping up too rashly to consider how all of what just went down is about to deeply traumatize the young I-Jing for life.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The fan base would deserve better; jilted fan bases always do, but this is business.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
The hard-to-pin-down Stack tangles with boiling-mad ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who demands answers about why she was jilted.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
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Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Screeching and yelling, jilted lovers, and generational disappointment flood into a finale as theatrical as a Broadway stage play despite affecting performances, wrapping up too rashly to consider how all of what just went down is about to deeply traumatize the young I-Jing for life.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
The fan base would deserve better; jilted fan bases always do, but this is business.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2025
The hard-to-pin-down Stack tangles with boiling-mad ex-girlfriend Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) who demands answers about why she was jilted.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jilt
Verb
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Coach Joanne is dead set on turning things around this season despite having just been brutally dumped by her girlfriend and co-founder of the team.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ross took over for Joe Maddon, who five years earlier replaced Rick Renteria in a prior example of the Cubs dumping a first-time manager for a more experienced, accomplished hand.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Nobody wants to be seen by voters as the cause of a shutdown that will leave many federal workers without pay and some services closed.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The photographs show how the wearable had swelled leaving no gap between his finger and the ring.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Dodgers have ditched that for a new cutter.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Their underground campaign ditched the standard teaser, trailer, poster and TV spots approach for a single cryptic billboard, a mysterious telephone number, and a trail of online breadcrumbs to entice fans to figure out the mystery of the film.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Jilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jilt. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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