jettison

Plural: jettisons

Verb

Verb Forms: jettisoned, jettisoning, jettisons

• To cast goods overboard, especially to lighten a ship.
• throw away, of something encumbering
• throw as from an airplane
• To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
• To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.

Noun

• Items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
• The action of jettisoning items.

Examples

• He had to JETTISON his less valuable tiles to draw better ones for a bingo.
• The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
• The jettisoning of fuel tanks.

Synonyms

86, bin, can, cast aside, cast away, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, get rid of, jetsam ballast, jettison, junk, lose, pitch, scrap, shift, throw aside, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

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