What's the difference between jilting and wilting?
Jilting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jilt
Example Sentences:
(1) There are now entire porn sites devoted to the "amateur" naked selfie and concerns have recently been raised that jilted lovers can seek their revenge by making explicit images of their ex publicly available online.
(2) Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth is a tirade of fury by two twentysomething journalists accusing baby boomers of selfish individualism.
(3) I became interested in marriage break up – the causes, signs and symptoms – and soon became fluent in separation jargon (the split, the broken home, marriage difficulties, the trial separation, the walk-out, the divorce, problems at home, the affair, problems in the bedroom department, the Dear John, the jilting).
(4) The Wedding Singer, in which he was a jilted groom performing 1980s pop hits and falling for Drew Barrymore, raked in $123m worldwide in 1998 and made a convincing case for him as a rom-com lead.
(5) The best was Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik.
(6) She warns that our book, Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth , rallies "resentment against the sick and the elderly" and lines up pensions and the NHS for the chop.
(7) Jilted at the altar, First Choice went on to merge with the travel operations of Germany's Tui AG, creating London-listed Tui Travel.
(8) It portrays a driven and somewhat ruthless executive whose masterwork is a response to being jilted by his girlfriend and who is prepared to drop his closest friend, Eduardo Saverin, as he gets ahead.
(9) The problems of unstable and expensive housing, of poorly paid, temporary or for that matter non-existent jobs, and the irresponsible way in which Britain's public finances have been managed, are not illusory but affect the jilted generation most severely.
(10) The mass jilting of Labour by millions of voters was relatively recent, and limiting exile from power to one term is pretty rare in British politics.
(11) Rational self-counseling and psychotherapy can be effective in helping a jilted person work through periods of distress and may help to reestablish emotional well being and good mental health.
(12) Yet a jilted mistress or unpaid gangster would surely have just shot or stabbed him.
(13) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
(14) Generation Rent have good reasons to feel like the jilted generation.
(15) Pass the hankies because that almost makes grown men weep, or holler for former favourites to be jilted.
(16) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
(17) But the protest was a response to pent up anger of young people who feel they are being jilted at every turn.
(18) They are, as Guardian journalist Shiv Malik wrote, the Jilted Generation , who are set to be the first generation to do worse than its parents as far back as data goes.
(19) Yanukovych's decision sparked the biggest protests in Ukraine for almost a decade and sent relations between Europe and Russia into deep chill, as Brussels sees the Kremlin as bullying Yanukovych into jilting Europe in favour of joining a Moscow-led customs union.
(20) In 2014, Victoria became the first and only state to criminalise revenge porn, so called because of the prevalence of websites which made it easy for jilted lovers to post pictures or videos publicly that were intended for private use.
Wilting
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wilt
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(2) Dwight Gayle converted with ease though, even then, Town refused to wilt.
(3) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(4) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(5) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
(6) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(7) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(8) In the cells of wilted plants only 60% of the mRNA nucleotide sequences present in the controls are synthesized.
(9) Effects of wilting of grass prior to ensiling on OM intake, ruminal digestibility, efficiency of bacterial protein synthesis, and amount and composition of duodenal N fraction were examined using four lactating Holstein cows.
(10) Silage had a lower disappearance rate of CP than wilted grass.
(11) Most of the test fields had cultivated conventional brinjals previously and so they contained pathogens of bacterial wilt and fungus left over from those conventional crops, he said.
(12) Chelsea must rise to that challenge, and their refusal to wilt was heartening, prompting comparisons with Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, whose constant probing would often draw late rewards from apparent lost causes.
(13) The complete nucleotide sequence of the S RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was determined.
(14) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
(15) #USAvGER June 2, 2013 Germany have looked rather "wilted" in this last ten minutes.
(16) The synthesis of viral RNA species in tomato spotted wilt virus-infected Nicotiana rustica plants was followed in terms of time and relative abundance.
(17) Fiber-associated protein increased markedly with increases in DM during wilting, and these differences were present in the mature silage of both ryegrass and alfalfa.
(18) Complementary DNA to the genomic RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was synthesized and cloned in either pUC19 or lambda gt10.
(19) While a less crushing defeat is expected this time, analysts are not predicting significant gains for fragmented, uninspired opponents that have wilted under the EPRDF’s glare.
(20) Bolton’s Shola Ameobi ends drought as Steve Evans’ Leeds earn a point Read more Elsewhere in west London, another dark, gloomy cloud was lifted from over another wilting manager.