JILT Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

jilt

verb

ˈjilt

Definition of jilt next

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 Ellison, reasonably, feels jilted by Warner, a company whose present $82 billion value is entirely thanks to a bidding war that Paramount kicked off and which Netflix won out. —

Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 8 Dec. 2025 How about the likes of John Candy, Henry Gibson, Steve Lawrence and Twiggy, who was jilted by Elwood. —

Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2025 Or will Ole Miss get jilted, bailed on before their savior coach can take them to the College Football Playoff altar? —

Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025 One of the most notorious tales involves two women, each jilted at the altar, who took their own lives in Room 525. —

Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jilt

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As most Chicagoans aware of the history of the civil rights movement know all too well, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted the two men of killing the Black teenager from Chicago and dumping his body in the river.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
The mobsters turned the van around, pulled off the highway and dumped Gasso in a patch of poison ivy along the Connecticut River in Wethersfield.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026