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larguer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ditch noun A long narrow trench dug in the ground, often for drainage.
  • dump noun A site where waste or garbage is disposed of.
  • jettison verb To throw cargo or equipment overboard or overboard-equivalent, usually to lighten a vessel or aircraft in an emergency.

Senses

larguer is used for these senses in English:

  • ditch (transitive) To discard or abandon.
  • give the elbow (transitive, slang, British) To fire (an employee); to end a relationship with someone; to reject someone.
  • jettison To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.

ditch — full definition

  1. noun A long narrow trench dug in the ground, often for drainage.
  2. verb To abandon or get rid of something or someone.
  3. verb To skip school or a class without permission.

dump — full definition

  1. noun A site where waste or garbage is disposed of.
  2. noun (informal) An unpleasant, dirty, or run-down place.
  3. verb To get rid of or discard something, often carelessly.
  4. verb (informal) To end a romantic relationship with someone.
  5. verb (computing) To output or copy the full contents of memory, data, or a file, often for debugging.

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