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Jettison

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

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Discard 76% connected

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

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Dispose 76% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Fling 76% connected

To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Throw 76% connected

Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Toss 76% connected

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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Alarm noun · 78% connection

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

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Alegge verb · 78% connection

To allay or alleviate; to lighten.

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Allege verb · 78% connection

To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble.

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Alleviate verb · 78% connection

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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Anchor noun · 78% connection

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a…

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Camel noun · 78% connection

A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…

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Cargo noun · 78% connection

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

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Cowardice noun · 78% connection

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

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Danger noun · 78% connection

the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury; "you are in no danger"; "there was widespread danger of disease"

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Destiny noun · 78% connection

The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in…

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Distress noun · 78% connection

A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

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Expose verb · 78% connection

To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially d…

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Fate noun · 78% connection

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which…

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Fortitude noun · 78% connection

That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity w…

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Foulder verb · 78% connection

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.

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Injection noun · 78% connection

The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aeriform body, by means of a…

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Jetson noun · 78% connection

Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods wh…

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Jonah noun · 78% connection

The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.

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