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overboard

[ oh-ver-bawrd, -bohrd ]

adverb

  1. over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water:

    to fall overboard.



overboard

/ ˈəʊ±¹É™ËŒ²úɔ˻å /

adverb

  1. from on board a vessel into the water
  2. go overboard informal.
    1. to be extremely enthusiastic
    2. to go to extremes
  3. throw overboard
    to reject or abandon
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of overboard1

before 1000; Middle English over bord, Old English ofer bord. See over, board
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. 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 .
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Example Sentences

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After separating out the minerals, the mining ships then pipe back overboard the processed waters, sediment and mining “fines,†which are the small particles of the ground-up nodule ore.

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When the vessels are in British waters the packages are thrown overboard to be collected by smaller "daughter" boats, which locate the contraband.

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For Bukele, he may be inoculating himself against Trump’s potential wrath by going overboard with gestures of cooperation and avoiding the tariffs and other sanctions that a number of other countries are facing.

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"You just find a way not to be swept overboard by his demons."

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Tech companies in California and elsewhere have relied on the program even as they made massive job cuts following the pandemic, during which many went overboard on hiring and other spending.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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