What does dejar plantado in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word dejar plantado in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use dejar plantado in Spanish.

The word dejar plantado in Spanish means stand up, give the shove, stand up, leave standing at the altar. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word dejar plantado

stand up

(coloquial (incumplir cita, compromiso) (person)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Tomás dejó plantadas a sus hermanas la otra noche en el cine.
Tomás stood his sisters up the other night at the cinema.

give the shove

(coloquial (pareja: abandonar de repente) (colloquial)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Esa mujer dejó plantado a mi hermano para irse con otro.
That woman gave my brother the shove to run off with another man.

stand up

locución verbal (coloquial (no asistir a cita) (date)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
Marcos dejó plantada a su novia.
Marcos stood up his girlfriend.

leave standing at the altar

locución verbal (no asistir a tu boda)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
El día de su boda le entró pánico y dejó a su novio plantado en el altar.
On her wedding day, she panicked and left her fiancé at the altar.

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