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overboard
[ oh-ver-bawrd, -bohrd ]
adverb
- over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water:
to fall overboard.
overboard
/ ˈəʊvəˌbɔːd /
adverb
- from on board a vessel into the water
- go overboard informal.
- to be extremely enthusiastic
- to go to extremes
- throw overboardto reject or abandon
Word History and Origins
Origin of overboard1
Idioms and Phrases
- go 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.
More idioms and phrases containing overboard
see go overboard .Example Sentences
Another 10 slaves threw themselves overboard in a display of defiance at the inhumanity.
But this new study indicates that Weiner may be (is definitely) going a wee bit overboard.
En route to California, he reportedly tossed his works of Lenin overboard, to avoid trouble from the U.S. authorities.
Candidates like Bush, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio “want to toss Republicans overboard.”
On the sixth day adrift on the waves, four refugees died and their bodies were tossed overboard.
The helmsman led me to the side of the vessel, and told me to hold my head overboard, and inhale the air.
Of young negresses, headed up in casks and thrown overboard, when the ships are chased.
So, when they saw the land quite near, what did they do but leap overboard, and swim towards it!
The lad came to in four hours; had he died he would have been quietly reported as washed overboard.
The father was aghast; he whispered hurriedly, "Pull, for God's sake; she'll roll him overboard before we get up."
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