Dictionary Entry
jettison
jettison is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
- 2noun
See Jetsam, 1.
- 3verb
throw as from an airplane
- 4verb
throw away, of something encumbering
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