Overboard - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈəʊvərbɔːrd|  American pronunciation of the word overboard
Brit.  |ˈəʊvəbɔːd|  British pronunciation of the word overboard

adverb

- to extremes
he went overboard to please his in-laws
- from on board a vessel into the water
they dropped their garbage overboard

Extra examples

He threw the fish overboard.

The boy fell overboard and almost drowned.

One of the sailors fell into the water, and someone shouted “Man overboard!”.

He fell overboard and was drowned.

One of the crew fell overboard and drowned.

Man overboard! (=said when someone falls off a boat)

Man overboard!

One of the sailors had fallen overboard.

They threw a lifeline to the man overboard.

I hope politicians will not go overboard in trying to control the press.

The young man was washed overboard (=pushed from a boat into the sea by the force of the water) in the storm.

...the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard...

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