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单词 jilt
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Definition of jilt in English:

jilt

verb dʒɪltdʒɪlt
[with object]
  • Suddenly reject or abandon (a lover)

    he was jilted at the altar by his bride-to-be
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A note was delivered to her as I waited, but again I was jilted.
    • He sees her every performance and insinuates himself into her life, then ends up marrying her when she is jilted by her lover.
    • Yes some women, heart broken by being jilted, will respond by genetically engineering sons who are more likely to be monogamous.
    • The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
    • Aida is a young girl who is jilted by her lover, Marcello.
    • His sudden voice had jilted me from the conversation Duhze and I were having.
    • So why am I now like a moping, jilted lover who has just discovered that flowers still smell and the sun also rises?
    • Whilst reveling in the acoustic rhythmic paradise I was jilted by the interruption of some very dodgy saxophone notes.
    • The film also resists the temptation to turn Mandras into a cardboard-cut out jilted lover.
    • I feel like some jilted lover or something from Shakespeare, thinking these things to myself.
    • Perhaps he was jilted by a 28 year old woman, who knows.
    • Students use it to research their papers, jilted lovers use it to stalk their exes - and journalists use it for just about everything.
    • Is it more painful to be jilted by a lover or an entire nation?
    • She herself was accused by the defence of being a ‘consummate actress’ who invented her story because Bamber had jilted her.
    • They have been jilted at the altar one too many times.
    • Throughout the course of the film, we learn that a young lover jilted her, then she lost his child during a pregnancy she never told him about.
    • A study of contract killings in Australia has found most are not ordered by criminals, but by angry spouses and jilted political lovers.
    • The story of what and who can be found on a beach takes in characters such as models, lifeguards, and a girl who has jilted her fiancé.
    • These are real people who have left damaged families, jilted lovers, and dark secrets behind.
    • After the smoke cleared, it was discovered that Captain Henry had jilted the rest and made off with most of the booty.
    Synonyms
    leave, walk out on, throw over, finish with, break up with, reject, cast aside
    desert, abandon, leave in the lurch, leave high and dry
    betray
    informal chuck, ditch, dump, drop, run out on, do the dirty on, give someone the old heave-ho
    British informal give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, give someone the push, bin off
    archaic forsake
noun dʒɪltdʒɪlt
archaic
  • A person, especially a woman, who capriciously rejects a lover.

    they'll teach you the guilt of coquetting and ogling, and playing the jilt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because we all understand the language of jilt.
    • She was thankful that while was surely still hurting over Sarah's jilt, he had found something he felt like fighting for.

Origin

Mid 17th century: (in the sense 'deceive, trick'): of unknown origin.

Rhymes

atilt, built, gilt, guilt, hilt, kilt, lilt, quilt, silt, spilt, stilt, tilt, upbuilt, wilt
 
 

Definition of jilt in US English:

jilt

verbjiltdʒɪlt
[with object]
  • Suddenly reject or abandon (a lover)

    he was jilted at the altar by his bride-to-be
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Perhaps he was jilted by a 28 year old woman, who knows.
    • I feel like some jilted lover or something from Shakespeare, thinking these things to myself.
    • So why am I now like a moping, jilted lover who has just discovered that flowers still smell and the sun also rises?
    • The story of what and who can be found on a beach takes in characters such as models, lifeguards, and a girl who has jilted her fiancé.
    • Whilst reveling in the acoustic rhythmic paradise I was jilted by the interruption of some very dodgy saxophone notes.
    • Throughout the course of the film, we learn that a young lover jilted her, then she lost his child during a pregnancy she never told him about.
    • The film also resists the temptation to turn Mandras into a cardboard-cut out jilted lover.
    • He sees her every performance and insinuates himself into her life, then ends up marrying her when she is jilted by her lover.
    • They have been jilted at the altar one too many times.
    • Yes some women, heart broken by being jilted, will respond by genetically engineering sons who are more likely to be monogamous.
    • Aida is a young girl who is jilted by her lover, Marcello.
    • A study of contract killings in Australia has found most are not ordered by criminals, but by angry spouses and jilted political lovers.
    • The woman, it appears, had not only been jilted by the drapery assistant but he had also ‘circulated a scandalous report about her’.
    • These are real people who have left damaged families, jilted lovers, and dark secrets behind.
    • Is it more painful to be jilted by a lover or an entire nation?
    • She herself was accused by the defence of being a ‘consummate actress’ who invented her story because Bamber had jilted her.
    • His sudden voice had jilted me from the conversation Duhze and I were having.
    • A note was delivered to her as I waited, but again I was jilted.
    • After the smoke cleared, it was discovered that Captain Henry had jilted the rest and made off with most of the booty.
    • Students use it to research their papers, jilted lovers use it to stalk their exes - and journalists use it for just about everything.
    Synonyms
    leave, walk out on, throw over, finish with, break up with, reject, cast aside
nounjiltdʒɪlt
archaic
  • A person, especially a woman, who capriciously rejects a lover.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because we all understand the language of jilt.
    • She was thankful that while was surely still hurting over Sarah's jilt, he had found something he felt like fighting for.

Origin

Mid 17th century: (in the sense ‘deceive, trick’): of unknown origin.

 
 
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