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Jettison pronunciation series#
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Talk about people jettisoning items-or abstract things, like hopes, attitudes, relationships, etc. It's a great alternative to plainer verbs like "dump," "trash," "discard," and "toss out." "Jettison" is a fun, colorful, nautical, semi-common word. Verb, the transitive kind: "That habit was weighing me down, so I jettisoned it." It's weighing you down, so you're sacrificing it so that you can stay afloat in whatever situation you're in. More figuratively, to jettison something is to get rid of it, as if you're tossing it overboard. And it can be a verb: to jettison something is to toss it overboard. In English, going back to about 1426, "jettison" has meant "the act of tossing stuff off your ship and into the water, usually to lighten the ship to stop it from sinking (or at least, to stop it from sinking so fast)." "Jettison" traces back to a Latin word meaning "a throwing." (To reveal any word with blanks, give it a click.) definition: Or de_estrate it: chuck it out the window.
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