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[ oh -ver-bawrd, -bohrd ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈoʊ vərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adverb over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
Idioms for overboardgo overboard , to go to extremes, especially in regard to approval or disapproval of a person or thing: I think the critics went overboard in panning that new show.
Origin of overboard before 1000; Middle English over bord, Old English ofer bord. See over, board
Words nearby overboard overbid, overbite, overblouse, overblow, overblown, overboard , overbook, overboot, overbore, overborne, overbought
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Example sentences from the Web for overboard En route to California, he reportedly tossed his works of Lenin overboard , to avoid trouble from the U.S. authorities.
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Candidates like Bush, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio “want to toss Republicans overboard .”
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But then he very skillfully and decisively throws Carrie overboard to protect the agency.
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“It went so overboard , it really seemed like there was another agenda,” he said.
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A suspicious Cal soon discovers his father was complicit in taking Richard out to sea and throwing him overboard .
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Upon this another of the foreign merchants cries, By gar, if they will not have it at all, we must throw it overboard !
A History of Caricature and Grotesque | Thomas Wright
But Rosy see 'em coming, jammed the tiller over, the boom swung across and swept the three overboard pretty as you please.
Cape Cod Stories | Joseph C. Lincoln
One night he carried up some of the best pieces and hove them overboard .
Peter Trawl | W. H. G. Kingston
We hung on a little longer, but it got to be too much for us and overboard we went.
The Seiners | James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
The latter pitches him overboard , goes on for the princess, and does not tell her of her loss till they arrive at court.
The Grateful Dead | Gordon Hall Gerould
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British Dictionary definitions for overboard adverb from on board a vessel into the water
go overboard informal to be extremely enthusiastic to go to extremes throw overboard to reject or abandon
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Idioms and Phrases with overboard The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Words related to overboard frenzied, fanatical, delirious, zealous, enthusiastic, crazed, virulent, furious, fervent, extra, enormous, needless, exaggerated, superfluous, inordinate, unreasonable, redundant, undue, exorbitant, extravagant