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overboard en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Outside of a boat; in the water.

Deriveds

man overboard · woman overboard

overboard en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
   • It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.
   • Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard. 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
   • Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
2. (not-comparable) Excessively; too much.
   • They really went overboard with the party preparations.
   • In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not. 2021, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, “What is... jealousy?”, in Let's Talk About It, →ISBN, page 190:

Deriveds

throw overboard · go overboard

Translations (14)

nl overboord (over the edge, off a boat) · pt borda a fora (over the edge, off a boat) · de über Bord (over the edge, off a boat) · fr par-dessus bord (over the edge, off a boat) · sv över bord (over the edge, off a boat) · pt exceder (over the edge, off a boat) · nn over bord (over the edge, off a boat) · ru за борто́м (over the edge, off a boat) · bg извън борда (over the edge, off a boat) · sv överbord (over the edge, off a boat) · nb over bord (over the edge, off a boat) · ru за́ борт (over the edge, off a boat) · da over bord (over the edge, off a boat) · ru за бо́ртом (over the edge, off a boat)

overboard en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.
   • ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’ 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 565:
2. (transitive) To cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.

Forms

Relateds

overboarding · overboarded