loswerden — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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.
• lose verb To no longer have something you once had, whether by accident, carelessness, or misfortune.

Senses

loswerden is used for these senses in English:

• dump (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
• get rid of (transitive, idiom) To rid oneself of; to cause oneself to be free of or released from.
• jettison (figurative) To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective.
• lose (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.

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.

jettison — full definition

1. verb To throw cargo or equipment overboard or overboard-equivalent, usually to lighten a vessel or aircraft in an emergency.
2. verb To abandon or discard something no longer wanted or useful.
3. noun The act of throwing something overboard, or the items thrown out this way.

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