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Jettison vs Forsake - What's the difference?

jettison | forsake |

As verbs the difference between jettison and forsake

is that jettison is to eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load while forsake is to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.

As a noun jettison

is (uncountable) collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.

jettison

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
  • (countable) The action of jettisoning items.

    • Synonyms

    * (items jettisoned): jetsam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
    • The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
    The jettisoning of fuel tanks .
  • To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.

    • Synonyms

    * (to let go or get rid of as being useless) chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss * See also

    forsake

    English

    Verb

  • To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently) , to renounce.

    • References

    * * Notes: English irregular verbs English words prefixed with for- ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • to give up, relinquish
  • to denounce (the devil)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

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