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the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless
- with his ship rapidly sinking, the captain ordered a last-ditch jettison of much of its cargo
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of jettison (Entry 2 of 2)
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
- just jettison that plan, because we know it won't work
Synonyms for jettison
- 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
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“Jettison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jettison. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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