Usually means: Abandoning someone abruptly and heartlessly.
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  1. jilting: Merriam-Webster
  2. jilting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jilting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jilting, jilting: Wordnik
  5. jilting: Wiktionary
  6. Jilting, jilting: Dictionary.com
  7. jilting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Jilting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Jilting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. jilting: FreeDictionary.org
  11. jilting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. jilting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jilting: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The rejection of a lover.

Similar:
Rejected, spurned, unloved, cold shower, jolt, knockback, heartbreaker, slapdown, rejolt, wrench, more...

Opposite:
commitment, loyalty, devotion, dedication

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Similar:
Rejected, spurned, unloved, cold shower, jolt, knockback, heartbreaker, slapdown, rejolt, wrench, more...

Opposite:
commitment, loyalty, devotion, dedication



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