jettisoning

Verb

jettison (third-person singular simple present jettisons, present participle jettisoning, simple past and past participle jettisoned)

1. To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
   • The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.

   Synonyms:

   cast off, discard

2. (figuratively) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
   • Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and...1957 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496

   Synonyms:

   discard, chuck, ditch, dump, junk, lose, 86, bin, can, cast aside

   Antonyms:

   adopt, embrace, keep, retain

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