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jettisonnoun the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or uselesswith his ship rapidly sinking, the captain ordered a last-ditch jettison of much of its cargo discarding, disposal, disposition, dumping, junking, removal, riddance, scrapping, throwing away clearance, clearingdecimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction accumulation, acquirement, acquisition, collection, deposit, gathering jettisonverbto get rid of as useless or unwantedjust jettison that plan, because we know it won't work cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, discard, ditch, dump, eighty-six(or 86), exorcise(also exorcize), fling (off or away), junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off)also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload abandon, abdicate, desert, forsakedismiss, kick outabolish, annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, remove, root (out), stamp (out), wipe out dispose of, set aside adopt, embrace, take onemploy, use, utilizehold, hold back, keep, retain in the 15th century |