jettison

Speech parts

1. jettison - Noun

2. jettison - Verb

Meaning

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

See Jetsam, 1.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

chuck slough cut forsaking jilt cast remove drop lose eliminate reject discharge disposal cancel shed
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Antonyms

found garner have keep hope collect
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Hypernyms

throw toss discard dispose fling cast away

Examples

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. Michael Shermer

But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved. Quintus Curtius Rufus

I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, "You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books." Sam Harris

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. David Caruso

A command was sent to manually jettison the payload shroud, but nothing happened. Source: Internet

After reentry, jettison mechanisms will generate enough thrust to push the cover away from the spacecraft and allow the three main parachutes to unfurl, stabilizing and slowing the capsule to 20 mph or less for a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

jettiness jetting jettingly jettisonability jettisonable jettisoning