jettison
to throw away or discard
Root
- ject: throw or cast
Other words with the ject root
- abject: miserable, degraded, or hopeless
- conjectural: based on guesswork rather than proof
- conjecture: a guess based on incomplete evidence
- dejected: sad and low-spirited
- eject: to throw out
- interject: to throw a remark into a conversation
- project: to throw forward; plan or estimate
Jettison keeps the throw-overboard image: discard what is weighing the journey down.
She jettisoned three unnecessary examples from the essay and the argument moved faster.
The word feels nautical for a reason. Imagine cargo thrown from a ship so the ship survives. Modern jettison keeps that emergency discard energy.