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waterboard en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English water boarde, waterbord, equivalent to water + board. Compare West Frisian wetterboard (“waterboard”), Dutch waterbord (“waterboard”), German Wassertafel (“waterboard”), Danish vandbræt (“waterboard”), Swedish vattenbräda (“waterboard”), Icelandic vatnsbretti (“waterboard”).

Meanings

  1. A board set up to windward in a boat, to keep out water.
  2. A public commission charged with overseeing water quality in a particular area.
    • The waterboard argued that the quality of the water was good […] 2005, Ruth M. Mourik, Did Water Kill the Cows?, page 167:

Forms

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waterboards Number=Plur lexicographic

waterboard en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English water boarde, waterbord, equivalent to water + board. Compare West Frisian wetterboard (“waterboard”), Dutch waterbord (“waterboard”), German Wassertafel (“waterboard”), Danish vandbræt (“waterboard”), Swedish vattenbräda (“waterboard”), Icelandic vatnsbretti (“waterboard”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To subject to waterboarding, to pour water over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive.
    • We waterboarded the suspect, but he refused to confess.

Forms

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waterboards Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
waterboarding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
waterboarded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
waterboarded Tense=Past lexicographic

Descendants

waterboarden

Translations (8)

sv skendränka (to subject to waterboarding) · es waterbordear (to subject to waterboarding) · nl waterboarden (to subject to waterboarding) · cmn 水刑 (to subject to waterboarding) · es torturar a lo submarino (to subject to waterboarding) · es hacer el submarino (to subject to waterboarding) · es hacer waterboarding (wáterbordin) (to subject to waterboarding) · es submarinear (to subject to waterboarding)