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v. To cast overboard or off: a ship jettisoning wastes; a pilot jettisoning aircraft fuel.

v. Informal To discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome: jettisoned the whole marketing plan.

n. The act of discarding or casting overboard.

n. Jetsam.

n. Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

n. The action of jettisoning items.

v. To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

v. To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

n. The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

n. See Jetsam, 1.

n. In law, the throwing overboard of goods or merchandise, especially for the purpose of easing a ship in time of danger or distress.

To throw overboard, especially for the purpose of easing and saving a ship in time of danger.

v. throw as from an airplane

v. throw away, of something encumbering

"But we find that, when someone wants to make a major change in their lives, especially around breaking out of chemical abuse, if they kind of jettison that person who was part of that abuse with them, that ` s usually a very positive step."

jettisoned    jettisoning    jettisons   

throw    throwaway    fling    dispose    toss away    chuck out    toss out    discard    put away    cast aside   

jetsam   

jetsam    junk    lose    dump    ditch    chuck    scrap    toss    discard