You're likely familiar with the popular new game Wordle, created by Josh Wardle and recently purchased by the New York Times. Don’t skip straight to the review-first, let your working memory empty out. Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. (To save your work, copy and paste it into an email or a document.) If you have any questions about this word, please message me at it:Įxplain the meaning of "jettison" without saying "cast off" or "discard." try it out:įill in the blanks: "(In a certain situation), I immediately jettison _."Įxample: "In Scrabble, I immediately jettison any letter U's, playing any word just to get rid of them. Megan MacFarland, Salon, 5 November 2018 has this page helped you understand "jettison"? "It took several stories on his misconduct published in respected media outlets for Lauer to finally be jettisoned from the network." Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003 "The restaurant's manager built a chute on the roof and threatened to jettison the garbage directly onto Olmsted's precious lawns." For example, Charlie Brooker wrote that "Passions," the bizarre paranormal soap opera, "doesn't throw reality out of the window so much as jettison it into the sun." And because you typically jettison things into the ocean, it's funny if you jettison them elsewhere. The implication is that the person is in distress, or eager to make faster progress-and hopes to find relief or speed up.īecause you don't often expect a nautical metaphor, this word can be pretty funny. 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. If a bad relationship is weighing you down, jettison it: chuck it into the sea.
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