Jettison

Noun

 * 1)  Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
 * 2)  The action of jettisoning items.

Synonyms

 * : jetsam

Verb

 * 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.
 * The jettisoning of fuel tanks.
 * 1) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

Synonyms

 * chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss
 * See also Thesaurus:junk

Thesaurus
abandon, abandonment, abdicate, absentation, back out, beg off, boot out, booting out, bounce, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, cast out, castaway, casting away, castoff, cessation, chuck, chuck out, cry off, deep six, deep-six, defenestrate, defenestration, depart from, desuetude, detrude, detrusion, discard, discarding, discharge, disposal, dispose of, disposition, disuse, ditch, drop out, dump, dumping, eighty-six, eject, ejection, ejectment, eliminate, elimination, evacuate, evacuation, exclude, expel, expulsion, extrude, extrusion, forsake, forsaking, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, give away, give the hook, go back on, heave out, jettisoning, jilt, junk, junking, kick downstairs, kick out, kicking downstairs, leave, leave behind, leave flat, leaving, maroon, obtrude, obtrusion, oust, ouster, ousting, part with, pull out, pulling out, put out, quit, quit cold, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection, relegation, removal, remove, renege, riddance, say goodbye to, scrap, scrapping, shed, slough, stand down, take leave of, the boot, the bounce, throw away, throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throwaway, throwing out, throwing overboard, thrust out, toss out, toss overboard, turn out, vacate, withdraw, withdrawal

Pronunciation

 * or

Etymology
From getteson:, from  getaison: (French: would be *undefined: like pendaison:). Cognate to jetsam:

Noun

 * Russian: сброс

Verb

 * Dutch: lozen, overboord werpen
 * Finnish: heittää yli laidan
 * French:


 * German: über Bord werfen, Ballast abwerfen
 * Russian: сбрасывать
 * Spanish: echar mercancías al mar,, soltar lastre


 * Russian: выбрасывать


 * Spanish: ,