overboard

Speech parts

1. overboard - Adjective

2. overboard - Verb

3. overboard - Adverb

Meaning

Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dear bridge expensive extra extreme enormous excessive reject costly steep crazy dump extravagant discard unreasonable
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Phrases with the word

go overboard expression go overboard with fell overboard gone overboard

Anagrams

overbroad Veroboard

Examples

they dropped their garbage overboard Source: Internet

he went overboard to please his in-laws Source: Internet

According to Kesey, "Without Faye, I would have been swept overboard by notoriety and weird, dope-fueled ideas and flower-child girls with beamy eyes and bulbous breasts." citation Esquire Magazine (September 1992). Source: Internet

An enemy tanker remains afloat and on fire, so they torpedo the ship, only to realize that there are still sailors aboard; they watch in horror as the sailors, some on fire, leap overboard and swim towards them. Source: Internet

Atmosphere control equipment includes a CO 2 scrubber, which uses an amine absorbent to remove the gas from air and diffuse it into waste pumped overboard. Source: Internet

God calls up a great storm at sea, and the ship's crew cast Jonah overboard in an attempt to appease God. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

overblow overblower overblown overboarded overboarding overboast