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Main Entry:	jettison [jet-uh-suhn, -zuhn] Show IPA/ˈdʒɛtəsən, -zən/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	eject; throw overboard
Synonyms:	abandon, abdicate, cashier, cast, cast off, deep-six, discard, dump, expel, heave, hurl, junk, maroon, reject, scrap, shed, slough, throw away, unload
Antonyms:	take in, take on

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	discard
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	get rid of
Synonyms:	abandon, abdicate, abjure, adios, banish, can, cancel, cashier, cast aside, chuck, deep-six, desert, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, dispossess, ditch, divorce, do away with, drop, dump, eject, eliminate, expel, forsake, free of, give up, have done with, jettison, junk, oust, part with, protest, put by, reject, relinquish, remove, renounce, repeal, repudiate, scrap, shake off, shed, sweep away, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, toss aside, write off
Antonyms:	embrace, keep, retain

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	disposal
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	parting with or throwing something away
Synonyms:	auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending
Antonyms:	hold, keeping, retention

Example Sentences

But the team also continued to jettison other veterans, releasing strong.

And you have to learn to accept that critique, incorporate the good and jettison the bad.

In effect, the state will take on much of the debt that the private sector has decided to jettison.

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But the team also continued to jettison other veterans, releasing strong.

And you have to learn to accept that critique, incorporate the good and jettison the bad.

In effect, the state will take on much of the debt that the private sector has decided to jettison.

They violently contract their muscles and jettison some of their internal organs out of their anus.

We program each tag to jettison from the whale at a predetermined time, after which it floats to the surface.

The amendments begin to jettison a cruel and repressive system.

If these deteriorate, the government could be the one to jettison reform and fiscal prudence.

The animals violently contract their muscles and jettison some of their internal organs out of their anuses.

Just some sort of spring device to jettison junk away and toward the sun.

There is little time left to jettison this unjust and counterproductive policy.

They will explore their past, and some of the prescripts and taboos that it gave rise to they will jettison.

Some companies want talent so badly, they buy start-ups for their employees and then jettison the products.

What such an approach provides is a certain flexibility to jettison those hadiths which are inconsistent now with modernity.

The service said that the decision showed its determination to jettison weak companies.

Kennedy and his presidency, they ought to jettison them.

With this rush to modernity came a corresponding tendency to jettison symbols of the island's heritage.

My point is that, even with scientific progress, it makes no sense to jettison the phenomenal basis of mental illness.

After the meal, the same package is then used to sterilize waste and store it until jettison time.

Jettison as much as possible and make a fresh start.

He had to leave his job, abandon thoughts of the future and jettison the habits of a lifetime.

Receivership allows the company to salvage the good and jettison the bad in an attempt to maximise value and minimise disruption.

With sales weakening and rough times ahead, the locals had strong motives to cut prices and jettison their inventories.

We will jettison the heat-shield, and open our landing legs.

Bush's top advisers have suggested that the administration wanted to jettison what had been its.

Gates with the intend to jettison the blame for the plight of.

He needs to jettison more poorly performing, redundant or anachronistic weapons systems, including nuclear weapons.

But the situation can alter life plans and jettison hopes.

There's little attempt to jettison familiar, comforting players for more exotic ones.

Sensible, if more surprising, is their tendency to jettison thigh-high skirts for calf-grazing maxis or bubble-shaped dresses.

Nordhaus say one necessary step is to jettison the idea of a sacred nature separate from human affairs.

The society went so far as to jettison its beloved egret logo in favor of a plain blue flag.

At the same time, it became a matter of some urgency for these firms to jettison mortgage-related securities in their pipelines.

COLLAPSE

Main Entry:	dispose of
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	throw away
Synonyms:	adios, bestow, chuck, deep six, destroy, discard, dump, eighty-six, eliminate, file in circular file, get rid of, give, jettison, junk, kiss off, kiss, make over, part with, relinquish, scrap, sell, transfer, unload
Antonyms:	hold, keep, retain

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	ditch
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	get rid of
Synonyms:	abandon, desert, discard, dispose of, drop, dump, eighty-six, forsake, jettison, junk, leave, reject, scrap*, throw away, throw out, throw overboard
Antonyms:	pick up

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	dump
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	drop, throw away
Synonyms:	cast, chuck, clear out, deep-six, deposit, discard, discharge, dispose of, ditch, drain, eject, empty, evacuate, expel, exude, fling, fling down, get rid of, jettison, junk, leave, let fall, scrap, throw down, throw out, throw overboard, tip, unload, unpack
Antonyms:	hold, keep, maintain, save

Main Entry:	forsake
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	abandon, turn one's back on
Synonyms:	abdicate, cast off, change one's tune, desert, disclaim, disown, drift away, forgo, forswear, give up, have done with, jettison, jilt, kiss goodbye, leave, leave flat, leave high and dry, quit, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, run out on, set aside, show the door, spurn, surrender, take the oath, throw over, walk out on, wash one's hands of, yield
Antonyms:	go back, rediscover, return, revert

Main Entry:	lighten
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	reduce weight, load
Synonyms:	allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assuage, attenuate, buoy, change, comfort, cut down, decrease, dilute, disburden, disencumber, ease, empty, eradicate, extenuate, facilitate, free, jettison, lessen, levitate, make less, make lighter, mitigate, mollify, pour out, put off, reduce, relieve, remove, shift, take, take a load off, thin, throw out, unburden, unload, uplight, upraise
Antonyms:	burden, weigh down

Main Entry:	reject
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	say no to
Synonyms:	burn, cashier, cast aside, cast off, cast out, chuck, decline, deny, despise, disallow, disbelieve, discard, discount, discredit, disdain, dismiss, eliminate, exclude, give thumbs down to, jettison, jilt, kill*, nix, not buy, pass by, pass on, pass up, put down, rebuff, refuse, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, scoff, scorn, scout, scrap, second, shed, shoot down, shun, slough, spurn, throw away, throw out, turn down, veto
Antonyms:	accept, allow, approve, choose, ratify, sanction

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