0 past simple and past participle of jettison
1 to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed:
That supposedly dreadful tyrant, the playwright, is not deposed, but outright conquered; you have not jettisoned his words, but stolen them.
It took multiple failures for a theory to be jettisoned.
If such is in principle beyond our grasp, justified belief gets jettisoned.
Colonial history thus becomes the melting pot that scholars of immigration jettisoned years ago.
No part of mathematics was to be jettisoned or even truncated.
Should everyday language about mental events be jettisoned in favor of some kind of self-free rhetoric?
When should we impose them, and when should they be jettisoned?
With faith to the fore and works jettisoned, there was little or nothing more to be said or done.
